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Old 03-12-2008, 07:56 AM   #55
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Originally Posted by aapezzuto View Post
but rely, what do you want as features for a program you would use to format or write ebooks with?
Personally as fiction reader I do not require a full EBook Writer. I do need an import from various formats, a toolbox to fix-up ebooks (a combination of E-Tidy to clean up the source and a simple paragraph tagger as provided by BookDesigner (Title, author, header and paragraph) and to finalize the good work an export.

As former DTP-er I have experience reformatting input documents into proper books and I experienced that most novels only need some basic text-tags and cleaning:
BookTitle, BookSubtitle, Author, Header, Footer, New page, Chapter Title, Chapter Subtitle, Chapter sub-sub title, paragraph, indented paragraph

Cleaning:
Transform all beginning spaces into tabs,
remove all tabs when preceded by a CR
Quote marks -cleanup

thus most fiction books are fairly simple.
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