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Old 12-11-2007, 09:54 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by Jadon View Post
Not remotely. I convert whatever format I start with to HTML, then run that through BookFixer, then edit that in The Semware Editor. There I add various things, like a title block and changing headers for an anthology, say. And I make lots of substitutions and checks, like searching for and fixing &ldquo;</p> from where Tidy gets confused. A 300-page novel might take a half-hour of editing, and that just gets it to my good-enough standards. I won't find OCR errors, or plenty of other things, but I'll get the formatting up to a level where I might be able to read ten pages between annoying errors.
Thanks, that is about where I am also. Still a little too much manual fixup but doable.
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