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Originally Posted by mrmikel
Pretty print tidy doesn't usually cause too much trouble. HTML tidy can be a real problem.
The HTML tidy problem can show up mostly in the event you do lots of text mangling with search and replace. It can eliminate whole paragraphs or skipped words and if you are not really good at proofreading, it can slip out and the reader catches it. Automatic repairs can be in this category too.
In your position writing the stuff in the first place, you know how it is supposed to go. But it can be like highway hypnosis... you know how is supposed to go so you see what ought to be there, especially after the 17th revision of the scene.
If you going to run on automatic you might consider text to speech to read it back to you and save save save.
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I was using this text editor called HTML Kit and did HTML Tidy ever take me by surprise. But you wrote:
Pretty print tidy doesn't usually cause too much trouble.
Well, I'd really like to have no trouble. That's probably not possible, I know.
When you said:
Automatic repairs can be in this category too.
Were those Pretty Tidy or HTML Tidy automatic repairs you were referring to?
Knock on wood, I've never had to do a major automatic repair with the Pretty Tidy. Just little stuff. I wouldn't go with HTML Tidy.
I guess it's pretty much a trade-off. Go without Pretty Tidy and little errors will work their way in that will need to be cleaned up later in EPUB check, or go with Pretty Tidy and risk a few quirky errors when you use its 'fix automatically' feature. Does that sound about right?