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Originally Posted by NatCh
I expect it's a matter of limited resources. Good as the converters available are (particularly the ones in libprs500) they still take time to use. I get the impression that Baen's e-book department is rather small, and there are a lot of books that would have to be converted. Sure Fictionwise has done their multiformat books, but Baen's folks may not have realized that yet, and may still consider it too big a job to undertake in the short term. Especially when RTF works pretty well on the PRS line. 
The Kindle thing is a different animal, since Kindle handles unlocked mobi files just fine, all they had to do was relabel the files they already had and they were done. I wouldn't be surprised if that only took a few hours. |
That's no excuse. I have a CMD batch file that goes through my entire Baen collection (Both the free and purchased books, a not-inconsiderable amount, I'm afraid I've spent surprisingly large amounts of money at Baen
) and converts them to LRF. It does so entirely automatically, recurses the subdirectories, can default certain settings for a whole group of books (my Baen folder defaults to --baen for instance) and can do specific settings for any specific book, which I do to embed the right fonts for David Weber's "War God's Own" and "Wind Rider's Oath" which use crazy characters not supported by the default font in the Sony.
Every so often, when there are changes in libprs500 that I'd like to make use of, I do a del /s *.lrf and reconvert the whole lot again, completely automatically. Took me all of a couple of hours to write the script. I'd give it to the Baen folks for free. All it requires is the .LIT, and the knowledge of when to override the defaults for specific books.
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Originally Posted by abailey
Subterranean is just starting to send books to Baen. Baen doesn't edit what they send because theoretically they are already edited. In this case it looks like the page breaks were rendered as paragraph breaks causing sentences to be cut in half when it was reflowed to continuous. Check back in a couple of days and I'll see if I can get it fixed.
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Thanks! I've already fixed it in my .LIT version, but I'd be happy to download it again fixed properly, since I have no way to recreate the .LIT once I explode it, I just zip it up. I have no idea what you folks use as your base version, in the HTML and .LIT one, the problem shows up as random <br /> in the middle of paragraphs. Sometimes three or four in a single paragraph. I fixed it in less than a minute in vim by using :%s/<br \/>//gc