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pholy · 07-14-2010, 02:05 PM

Caveat: I'm working on fiction, with nothing special for formatting.

My html is created from rtf files using OpenOffice. Then I've been using 'tidy' with a short config file:

Code:

add-xml-decl: yes
clean: yes
doctype: strict
drop-font-tags: yes
logical-emphasis: yes
output-xhtml: yes
char-encoding: utf8

That creates classes and a <style> section in the header - which I promptly delete and replace with a link to my stylesheet.css file. Then I use vim (or sed) to

Code:

1,$s/<p class.*">/<p>/

to get rid of the class references.

Then I run it through quoter to make curly quotes where required.

Then I massage with vim to fix any other typos I've missed. The rest of my process is pretty much like yours.

07-14-2010, 02:05 PM	#3
pholy Booklegger Posts: 1,801 Karma: 7999816 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Device: BeBook(1 & 2010), PEZ, PRS-505, Kobo BT, PRS-T1, Playbook, Kobo Touch	Caveat: I'm working on fiction, with nothing special for formatting. My html is created from rtf files using OpenOffice. Then I've been using 'tidy' with a short config file: Code: add-xml-decl: yes clean: yes doctype: strict drop-font-tags: yes logical-emphasis: yes output-xhtml: yes char-encoding: utf8 That creates classes and a <style> section in the header - which I promptly delete and replace with a link to my stylesheet.css file. Then I use vim (or sed) to Code: 1,$s/<p class.*">/<p>/ to get rid of the class references. Then I run it through quoter to make curly quotes where required. Then I massage with vim to fix any other typos I've missed. The rest of my process is pretty much like yours.