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Originally Posted by ProDigit
Hi,
I recently started using book designer, to edit some books I have into the LRF format.
I've had several questions answered by Patricia who was so willing to spend her time helping me out, and I've learned lots already. I spend also a considerable amount of time browsing through the ever longer getting forums, both through the old and new posts, and honestly all this information is driving me nuts  .. lol |
Have you gone through my BD tutorial? That covers pretty much all the basics.
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Suggested was to create emdashes from double lines like this: '--'.
I can now do that in MS Word, but I've read about Book Cleaner files, which should do the same thing in BD. I've tried them out, and found all words with 'oe' get replaced by '—'.
Is there any solution to this?
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Make sure the language is NOT set to "English" (yes, I know that's not intuitive!). I always have it set to German.
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I currently only own a Sony Reader, so I save in LRF format. But it's just the touch of a button to convert it to Mobi or other formats.
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Do NOT use BD to create MobiPocket files - it create a very old version of the MobiPocket file format which has all sorts of problems. Best way to create a MobiPocket book once you have it looking nice in BD is to use the "Save As" menu in BD to save the book as HTML, then use MobiPocket Creator to create a Mobi book from the HTML. It takes less than 5 minutes for the entire process - I've written another tutorial which gives step-by-step instructions.
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Are there any macro's that can remove footnotes from the text to the bottom of the document?(they are mainly references)
I remember someone writing about them, but I can't seem to find their post back.
My footnotes are all like this: "[Footnote: ...blabla footnote here...]"
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Not that I know of, but I find it a sufficiently rapid manual process that it's never been an issue.