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Old 07-05-2008, 07:49 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules View Post
When I convert a book using BD, I have four persistent problems of which three consume a lot of my time and one is just an annoyance:
I've only dabbled in BD thus far, but my question is why you are trying to do everything in BD. Things like killing the "helpful" page numbers PG puts into HTML files, and handling ASCII representations of text attributes like italics in text files might be bettered handled by other tools. I'd preprocess the files to do that stuff before importing to BD.

As mentioned by another poster, GutenMark may be just the thing for the text files. And something like a port of Unix "sed" or other automated search and replace tool that handles regular expressions would be good for the embedded page numbers.
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