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Patricia · 07-05-2008, 05:01 PM

VR, here are some more hints:

Page numbers
You can strip them automatically like this.
1. If in html then click on the 'edit in Word icon' (If in doc, don't.)
Then use regular expressions to get rid of page numbers:

To strip page numbers
For a page number of the form:
[Pg xxx]
set the search string to "\[Pg [0-9]*\]" - that is, the character "[", then "Pg ", then a sequence of characters in the range 0-9, then another character "]".
Set the replace string as emply, and check the "RegEx" box on the search dialog.
(This hint came from one of HarryT's posts. I copied and used it a lot.)

Check that your BD settings allow the empty lines to be kept (Configuration/settings/keep empty lines)

Blank line between paras.
If they're in the source text then leave them.
If they are not there then use 'find and replace' (Edit menu) to find one paragraph mark and replace with two paragraph marks. (Within 'find and replace go on to 'more and 'special' to find the paragraph marks thingy.)

TOCs
1. Just make sure that everything you want in the TOC is labelled as a title.
2. Then it is useful to go to 'format/more transformations/insert all line breaks' then use the 'element browser/tools/titles' to check that all the line breaks have appeared. Insert the missing ones manually.
3. The go to the beginning. Click under the book title and then on Insert/insert TOC. An automatic TOC will magically appear. It will usually position itself above one of the subtitles. But just copy, cut and paste the now-wrongly-placed subtitle.
Incidentally, it always appears headed 'Table of Content.' This is a monor translation glitch. Just add an s.

Language
Whatever language you are actually using, just choose German. It has the full range of accents and works better than any of the other options. Between us, we've all proved this by bitter experience.

Epic Paragraphs
These are usually due to a stray html tag somewhere. Most of the time they seem to vanish if I replace the manual line breaks with paragraph breaks.
If not, then cutting and pasting the text into BD will work, as mentioned in an earlier post in this thread (with a hint on saving the emdashes).

07-05-2008, 05:01 PM	#59
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	VR, here are some more hints: Page numbers You can strip them automatically like this. 1. If in html then click on the 'edit in Word icon' (If in doc, don't.) Then use regular expressions to get rid of page numbers: To strip page numbers For a page number of the form: [Pg xxx] set the search string to "\[Pg [0-9]\]" - that is, the character "[", then "Pg ", then a sequence of characters in the range 0-9, then another character "]". Set the replace string as emply, and check the "RegEx" box on the search dialog. (This hint came from one of HarryT's posts. I copied and used it a lot.) Check that your BD settings allow the empty lines to be kept (Configuration/settings/keep empty lines) Blank line between paras.* If they're in the source text then leave them. If they are not there then use 'find and replace' (Edit menu) to find one paragraph mark and replace with two paragraph marks. (Within 'find and replace go on to 'more and 'special' to find the paragraph marks thingy.) TOCs 1. Just make sure that everything you want in the TOC is labelled as a title. 2. Then it is useful to go to 'format/more transformations/insert all line breaks' then use the 'element browser/tools/titles' to check that all the line breaks have appeared. Insert the missing ones manually. 3. The go to the beginning. Click under the book title and then on Insert/insert TOC. An automatic TOC will magically appear. It will usually position itself above one of the subtitles. But just copy, cut and paste the now-wrongly-placed subtitle. Incidentally, it always appears headed 'Table of Content.' This is a monor translation glitch. Just add an s. Language Whatever language you are actually using, just choose German. It has the full range of accents and works better than any of the other options. Between us, we've all proved this by bitter experience. Epic Paragraphs These are usually due to a stray html tag somewhere. Most of the time they seem to vanish if I replace the manual line breaks with paragraph breaks. If not, then cutting and pasting the text into BD will work, as mentioned in an earlier post in this thread (with a hint on saving the emdashes).