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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Have you tried OpenOffice/SunOffice or MS Works instead? What about Google Docs? Although I don't think it will make much difference considering RTF is a standard.
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It does make huge difference.
When formatting latest free e-books I have received by email from Tor I have tried many options. When you copy and paste document from browser into OpenOffice.org writer or into MSWord the result does not even open properly in Sony reader. So I have opened rtf files in plain text editor, and ... You would not believe the mess the editors do when writing rtf file.
I ended up creating an rtf file by hand - using macros (scripts) in a plain text editor -- Vim.
- open html file
- replace all <i> tags with \i
- replace all </i> tags with \i0 tag
- replace all <p something> tags with \par
- delete all the rest of html tags -- :%s/<[^>]*>//g
- insert file header "stolen" from a very simple word pad created file (on Unix and Linux I use Ted editor that produces THE cleanest rtf code I have seen to date)
- insert footer "stolen" from the file above
- rename *html to *rtf
File size is small fraction of the same book formated in word processor.