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Build help needed
I've set myself the task of building proper and well-formatted books from the Bobbsey Twins texts available at Project Gutenberg. I've learned a lot, especially from Harry T and Nick.
So, now that I feel I have gotten the basics under control I have two things I would like to do to improve the quality of the eBooks I'm formatting.
1 - I'd like to include proper "curly" quotes. And even a curly apostrophe unless the shape of the apostrophe is just set by the font and there's no option. I recognize that there may be a fair amount of hand coding that I will need to do and that's OK by me. Can someone offer a formula or suggestion on how to go about that? I thought about editing the HTML file and changing the " symbol to " but that wouldn't distinguish between opening & closing quotes.
2 - I'm pulling images from the scanned versions of the books at books.google.com and including them in the generated books. Is there some kind of markup that I can use to identify a caption so that Book Designer will keep the image and the caption on the same page?
Tools I'm using so far:
Book Designer -- following Harry T's tutorial. I'm basically using his Word document, but I did add in the filter files that he recommended. Output from this is the Sony book and an HTML file to be used in the next steps.
MobiPocket Creator -- again following Harry T's tutorial. Input the HTML file from Book Designer and modify as recommended by Harry. Output is the MobiPocket book.
Mobi2IMP -- with the Windows GUI interface, following instructions provided by Nick. Input the PRC file created by MobiPocket Creator and output the IMP files in both sizes.
Should I be looking at calibre to improve the Sony book above that produced by Book Designer?
I'm a computer geek and willing to poke, prod, and otherwise finagle files and programs to get the best outcome.
Elsi
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