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bjo · 07-26-2010, 11:40 AM

I'm an occasional ebook publisher/converter, so I've used Calibre a few times, but I still seem to find myself wrestling with regexps and manually tweaking formatting errors for hours...

As a rusty old LISP hacker, I find myself fantasizing about a LISP library that scans an etext for common formatting patterns, and automatically detects and corrects/converts the most common.

But that's what Calibre is supposed to do, yes? If I've had to do a lot of post-processing, does that just mean I'm using it wrong?

(I can't give particular examples without going back and doing some experiments, but I thought I'd inquire here first, and see if the consensus is that Calibre should/shouldn't be meeting those needs already.)

07-26-2010, 11:40 AM	#1
bjo Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: none	Ebook AI for LISP hackers? I'm an occasional ebook publisher/converter, so I've used Calibre a few times, but I still seem to find myself wrestling with regexps and manually tweaking formatting errors for hours... As a rusty old LISP hacker, I find myself fantasizing about a LISP library that scans an etext for common formatting patterns, and automatically detects and corrects/converts the most common. But that's what Calibre is supposed to do, yes? If I've had to do a lot of post-processing, does that just mean I'm using it wrong? (I can't give particular examples without going back and doing some experiments, but I thought I'd inquire here first, and see if the consensus is that Calibre should/shouldn't be meeting those needs already.)