[TonytheBookworm]

Originally Posted by marbs

Thanks for the quick reply. So i fixed the code (it is indented now).
Still a bit lost on how to test the thing.
Opened CMD. Navigated to calibre folder. Ran "ebook-convert --list-recipes" got a list of 588 recipes. Found the recipe folder and added my recipe (the_marker.recipe) to the folder. I still have a list of only 588. Whats more, when i try "ebook-convert TheSun.recipe TheSun --test -vv> TheSun.txt" (an example from the thread. page 117 I think) I get "Access is denied".
I'm sorry, but i need a little more guidance.
thanks again

read this

Spoiler:

to test your recipe lets say it is called marbs.recipe
at the command line (CMD)
When you are in the calibre directory for example c:/program files/calibre2

type mkdir output_dir
this will make the output directory for you. this is a one time deal

then
type ebook-convert marbs.recipe output_dir --test -vv > myrecipe.txt

this will take and put some html files in the output_dir you created. Just click on the index.html to see what your output will look like.

Then if you notice issues then you can take and use notepad or whatever and open up the myrecipe.txt file and look for all the errors and so forth that was generated by using the -vv tag