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Old 02-20-2013, 10:05 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
They could be unicode characters. Try doing the the conversion in yourself in calibre. On the "Look & Feel" page of the conversion settings, there is an option to "Transliterate unicode characters to ASCII". That might solve it.

Trying the conversion yourself is a good idea even if you don't change any settings. A lot of on-line conversions sites use calibre for the conversion, but are using an old version. The current version usually does a better job.


If you have an epub in calibre, you can use the "Tweak book" option to expand the epub and then edit the files. The files you need to edit are HTML, so you can use a text editor. I do this for small changes. For larger changes, I use Sigil. This is a dedicate ePub editor.

Best format for input to the conversion is probably HTML. epubs are really a zip container with HTML files in them. That means if you have a nicely formatted HTML file, the epub should be OK. But, calibre does a reasonable conversion of most formats, so it really depends on where you are getting the text from and what you are comfortable with. If you are writing a novel in Word, then you can save it as HTML, and convert that (there are ways to improve this). If you have plain text, start with that and then edit in Sigil to change formatting. If you have mobi files, the conversion is very good.
Thanks, David, for the detailed explanation and information. I appreciate your taking the time. I've downloaded Sigil and will us it as well as Calibre in future.
Tom
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