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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Not everything can be automated. I for one would rather it wasn't, over automation is either hard to maintain or it does not deal adequately with the exceptions - some of which we haven't even thought of yet. Manual intervention to deal with exceptions introduces real intelligence.
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I just don't want to set false expectations.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I'm confused, is the style as per the Editors Blog post I linked to yesterday, used in The Netherlands never, sometimes or always. You seem to have said all three in different places. Not that that matters.
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Just from the top of my head I can think of 6 different ways quotation/dialogue is handled in Dutch in the last 100 yrs, depending on publisher, writer, target audience or time period. Currently it is a single quote and always a set that can span multiple paragraphs.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
As someone posted elsewhere pick up any quality book published in the English Speaking world and you will see the style I prefer, as per the Editors Blog, which is as per Cambridge and Chicago, maybe not the OUP, by definition they're all card carrying members of the Contrarian Society.
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Define quality... For example James Joyce used dashes as marks (not honored by all publishers). Your mileage may vary. I come across almost all variations, but the one you described almost never.
No matter, I already said I will look into it.
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Mate, to be honest I don't care what the HTML looks like, its a means to an end. I only care about what the EPUB looks like in a viewer or on my Android Tablet and maybe in an Editor like Sigil or calibre's. As I already said, I am quite happy to forego the creation of EPUBs from my consideration because I already have an acceptable working solution for converting a DOCX to EPUB.
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Calibre uses a different way for converting by trying to keep the layout from Word. There is an option in the tools to create a stylesheet based on the Word layout, but I don't think if it does smallcaps like you apparently want. In the end it is the same, a class specific for the smallcaps. You need to provide the stylesheet, except if you use the generate stylesheet option.
With regards to options, I can say the following. The default directory is the same directory where the DOCX is. The option is there if you want another directory. Also, the tool will only open the ePUB if the option is checked at the generate ePUB screen (off by default), so that is also not an issue. The last one is interesting, as the DOCX must be closed for the process. You can reopen it at the end if you want.