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PauloWerneck · 02-11-2014, 09:32 PM

Dear GeorgeH,

First of all, I thank you very much indeed for your superb work. I did not know this collection but for seeing some collections to be sold in old books shops. I did not get interested because all was written in English (my mother tongue is Portuguese) and had a apparently mix of unmixable authors.

Later I knew the history of the books, etcoetera, and get interested in reading them all. Searching internet I found some in Gutemberg Project, not really to my need, because they did not offer the books, but the books contents, for instance, in volume 1 they had different epubs with the Autobiography, the Journal, etc. Then I started converting all to make one single book and proposed myself to make this for all the collection.

Afterwards I found your superb work and changed to my primary goal, that is, to read all of them. So, thank you very much indeed.

Now, the question.

I've noticed that you made lots of classes in the styles sheets, more than forty blocks, some texts and calibres. Why? I try to have few classes in the books I convert to epub and I think I can do a pretty job with the few classes I use. That makes more easier the conversions, for I use to format the book using paragraphs styles in word, then I change all ends of paragraphs (^p) to </p>^p<p class="xx">. After that I change "xx" of each style to "name of class" for that style, and p class="xx" to h1, h2... according to the heading styles. Then I search and change /p to /h1 ou /h2 according to the title style and the word is almost done, for I have to handle the tables, that are a little more difficult.

Also I try not to define font-size in actual sizes, but prefer to use small, medium, to make easier to the reader have the font sizes as he or she prefers.

These are some comments. I beg your pardon if I am sort of teaching grandma to suck eggs.

Thanks again.

02-11-2014, 09:32 PM	#21
PauloWerneck Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Device: Kobo Glo	Many Thanks, one question Dear GeorgeH, First of all, I thank you very much indeed for your superb work. I did not know this collection but for seeing some collections to be sold in old books shops. I did not get interested because all was written in English (my mother tongue is Portuguese) and had a apparently mix of unmixable authors. Later I knew the history of the books, etcoetera, and get interested in reading them all. Searching internet I found some in Gutemberg Project, not really to my need, because they did not offer the books, but the books contents, for instance, in volume 1 they had different epubs with the Autobiography, the Journal, etc. Then I started converting all to make one single book and proposed myself to make this for all the collection. Afterwards I found your superb work and changed to my primary goal, that is, to read all of them. So, thank you very much indeed. Now, the question. I've noticed that you made lots of classes in the styles sheets, more than forty blocks, some texts and calibres. Why? I try to have few classes in the books I convert to epub and I think I can do a pretty job with the few classes I use. That makes more easier the conversions, for I use to format the book using paragraphs styles in word, then I change all ends of paragraphs (^p) to </p>^p<p class="xx">. After that I change "xx" of each style to "name of class" for that style, and p class="xx" to h1, h2... according to the heading styles. Then I search and change /p to /h1 ou /h2 according to the title style and the word is almost done, for I have to handle the tables, that are a little more difficult. Also I try not to define font-size in actual sizes, but prefer to use small, medium, to make easier to the reader have the font sizes as he or she prefers. These are some comments. I beg your pardon if I am sort of teaching grandma to suck eggs. Thanks again.