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Originally Posted by aapezzuto
ok then, as a slightly more technical question, would regular expressions + a find replace type statement be about the extent of scripting needs inside a program such as this?
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Mostly the cleaning up is difficult as most "authors"-documents have specific markup errors that seem to be specific for each source document.
extended - find & replace and/or a simple RegFindReplace is needed to cleanup. After that only a very-small-font preview is required to quickly identify Chapter Titles and Tag these and a zoom-in (larger preview font) to set paragraph-specific-tags (indent, quote etc)
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Originally Posted by aapezzuto
... Because of this, we have been tempted to only build a stream in/out type interface for outside scripting during editing, leaving the robust stuff for input and output builds.
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That could be the main engine and provide a "plug-in" to perform the cleaning/tagging of the document. (But then question is: what is the difference between your tool and BD and LibPrs500 and EBookPublisher etc etc??)
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Originally Posted by aapezzuto
I find it reassuring to see such a small list of markup types as the core needs of the project. I know that in my editing all I user are those core 8-10 things.
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I did NOT provide a final list of required markup tags. I always keep in perspective that an E-Book can never display the result of a full DTP-ed product. Should formatting be such an important issue than use a PDF-file and viewer or even the paper-version (a.k.a. p-book)
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Originally Posted by aapezzuto
also, since the epub format all ready supports a container to keep everything packaged together, would people like to see it keep your export preferences inside a specially marked e-pub file? Or the more pointed question... do you want to distribute a formated file with your convention preferences intact?
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It would be nice to have a export-settings file for each document that is exported, so one is able to re-create the export or tweak the export. I have no knowledge of the EPUB format.