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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@Hitch: I really dont care whether you want to use the calibre editor or not. I do care when you make incorrect statements about it, however. If you dont want to use it, for whatever reasons, that is fine, but if you do want to make statement about what it does or does not do, you should use it first.
EDIT: And just to be precise, here are your statement that are incorrect
1) The editor does not flatten css
2) Using the editor to edit AZW3 directly is *far more* direct a method of editing a book than editing the EPUB and then running it through kindlegen
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Fine, Kovid.
Whatever. I don't understand why everyone involved in something so inexorably simple as coding HTML and CSS has to get their knickers in a twist about what methods someone else uses, or chooses NOT to use. If Calibre doesn't flatten CSS, GREAT. If the AZW3 method is 'closer' to more direct than editing an ePUB, FINE. It's a process that I cannot use, period, for the exceedingly obvious reasons I already stated. NOR did I ever make ANY statements, WHATSOEVER,
about freaking Calibre, which you can confirm by actually reading what I
did say, which was MY OPINION that directly editing an ePUB is "less intermediate" than editing a format in Calibre. You disagree. FINE. Obviously, your view of what is "intermediate" and mine aren't the same, but the last time I looked, they weren't hanging people for HAVING OPINIONS.
I would hardly expect that you wouldn't disagree, but really: what's with the freaking
vehemence? This has happened numerous times lately--somebody says something offhand about editing an ePUB, or whatever, and suddenly, you're all over them like they shot your dog. You're the father of Calibre, and nobody is shooting the damn dog. You're some techno-genius. We're all impressed.
I'm perfectly happy to NEVER say another word about Calibre, ever, again. Hopefully, that will solve whatever your issue is with me, because seriously, I have NO time, and less interest than I can possibly express, for this type of Net-crap. Jesus h. christ!
Hitch