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mateo · 07-07-2008, 01:03 AM

I tested the program and the idea is absolutely fantastic. I have tried converting fanfiction.net books myself by hand and this is much easier.

One problem that I noticed is a similar problem to what I have experienced when doing it by hand. For some reason fanfiction.net doesn't format some of their special characters correct. ', ", ` are some of the characters that do not display correctly. I have to find and replace these characters when I do it manually. Your script will probably want to fix these, because the resulting HTML file (haven't tried the other formats) doesn't display as intended.

07-07-2008, 01:03 AM	#14
mateo Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2005 Device: Palm Zire71	I tested the program and the idea is absolutely fantastic. I have tried converting fanfiction.net books myself by hand and this is much easier. One problem that I noticed is a similar problem to what I have experienced when doing it by hand. For some reason fanfiction.net doesn't format some of their special characters correct. ', ", ` are some of the characters that do not display correctly. I have to find and replace these characters when I do it manually. Your script will probably want to fix these, because the resulting HTML file (haven't tried the other formats) doesn't display as intended. Last edited by mateo; 07-07-2008 at 01:18 AM.