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Patricia · 06-30-2008, 05:41 PM

Fair points.

TOCs
1. The automatic TOC will appear directly under the title (or first subtitle). If you don't want it there then it's fastest to leave it alone and to rearrange subtitles etc by cutting and pasting them around the TOC.
2. If you need to change an item in the automatic TOC then either delete the faulty entry (often best done by using the delete arrow rather than highlighting, for some reason.)
Alternatively, go to 'Edit/notes and links' and delete the link for the faulty entry. This will cause it to appear as ordinary text, which can be deleted or amended.
3. To add an entry, type it into the TOC, then go to 'Edit/notes and links' and add the new entry as a link. I find it easiest first to add the relevant section heading as a note, then link it to the new TOC entry.

Saving Files
BD is very quirky here. In the beginning I lost a couple of novels. How I swore.
This is what I do now.
1. Put text into BD (I just drag and drop the file in).
2. Check that it's vaguely ok -- basically whether BD has noticed the paragraph breaks.
3. Go to 'Make ebooks' and IMMEDIATELY make a book designer book. As I work on it, I try to hit the save changes button fairly regularly. This guarantees that your changes will be saved because it ensures that you have a location to save them.
(My original problems occured when I was working on two books at the same time. BD will save the last file [most of the time] but that doesn't work if you are juggling two books. Incidentally the Book designer books are typically saved in 'My Computer/C drive/program files/ Book Designer/BD'. This is useful to know, if you want to revise an earlier book.

Indenting
My experience is that BD will do a four-space indent automatically, whether you want it or not. It won't do more or less. This is a real pain if you ever want to convert poetry.

When you talk about 'Anote', do you mean 'notes and links'? They are for creating manual TOCs and for hyperlinking footnotes.
I've found that some html files have loads of surplus links, so click on 'notes and links/empty links' to delete the surplus. I also use it to fix broken notes and links.

WYSIWYG
I agree that BD is not perfect here. I use 'tools/element browser' a lot, in order to check that the titles, subtitles, italics, etc have come out where I want them.
Also 'view/ show nbls' ('show non-broken line-space') is useful when you want to make very precise changes.

I have to agree with you that this is not a perfect program. But it is surprisingly good. A few tweaks could make it even better. I'm only sorry that vvv, who invented it, hasn't had time to issue an update for a year now. I'm hoping that he will return to it before too long.

06-30-2008, 05:41 PM	#6
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Fair points. TOCs 1. The automatic TOC will appear directly under the title (or first subtitle). If you don't want it there then it's fastest to leave it alone and to rearrange subtitles etc by cutting and pasting them around the TOC. 2. If you need to change an item in the automatic TOC then either delete the faulty entry (often best done by using the delete arrow rather than highlighting, for some reason.) Alternatively, go to 'Edit/notes and links' and delete the link for the faulty entry. This will cause it to appear as ordinary text, which can be deleted or amended. 3. To add an entry, type it into the TOC, then go to 'Edit/notes and links' and add the new entry as a link. I find it easiest first to add the relevant section heading as a note, then link it to the new TOC entry. Saving Files BD is very quirky here. In the beginning I lost a couple of novels. How I swore. This is what I do now. 1. Put text into BD (I just drag and drop the file in). 2. Check that it's vaguely ok -- basically whether BD has noticed the paragraph breaks. 3. Go to 'Make ebooks' and IMMEDIATELY make a book designer book. As I work on it, I try to hit the save changes button fairly regularly. This guarantees that your changes will be saved because it ensures that you have a location to save them. (My original problems occured when I was working on two books at the same time. BD will save the last file [most of the time] but that doesn't work if you are juggling two books. Incidentally the Book designer books are typically saved in 'My Computer/C drive/program files/ Book Designer/BD'. This is useful to know, if you want to revise an earlier book. Indenting My experience is that BD will do a four-space indent automatically, whether you want it or not. It won't do more or less. This is a real pain if you ever want to convert poetry. When you talk about 'Anote', do you mean 'notes and links'? They are for creating manual TOCs and for hyperlinking footnotes. I've found that some html files have loads of surplus links, so click on 'notes and links/empty links' to delete the surplus. I also use it to fix broken notes and links. WYSIWYG I agree that BD is not perfect here. I use 'tools/element browser' a lot, in order to check that the titles, subtitles, italics, etc have come out where I want them. Also 'view/ show nbls' ('show non-broken line-space') is useful when you want to make very precise changes. I have to agree with you that this is not a perfect program. But it is surprisingly good. A few tweaks could make it even better. I'm only sorry that vvv, who invented it, hasn't had time to issue an update for a year now. I'm hoping that he will return to it before too long.