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Originally Posted by ProDigit
I'm not fond of Calibre or any other, as I don't want to put any credit to any other program within the book, and neither do I want to have a bloated ebook, with a messed up formatting. I know a lot of time has passed since I last used Calibre, but I didn't find it a very good engine.
I found the best engine is still Notepad++ (aka hand corrected).
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I'm not fond of using calibre's
converter for ebook creation either.
But I was talking about the
Editor.
It is a
text editor wrapped around an EPUB unzip-zip functionality.
It also has frills like live HTML preview, smart link renaming (it updates the links in other files), and the ability to run plugins written in python.
Sigil is the same, except it automatically tries to fix parsing errors using gumbo parser (and previously, with HTML Tidy).
Unless Notepad++ supports specific utilities you need for mangling your HTML, I don't see why you should use it. Automatically handling the ZIPping is extremely useful.
And why would you have to put credit for calibre in the book?
Do you currently put credit for Notepad++?
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The more I read about epub, the more questions I have.
Like:
1- Epub supports jpg, any other?
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Depends on the ereader. I know png is often used, at least on newer devices (some old ones might choke on it? Maybe?)
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2- Epub supports .ttf fonts, and I wondered if it does any other?
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TTF and OTF.
The EPUB3 spec allows WOFF as well, but find me an EPUB3 E-Ink reader.
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3- in container.xml there's the option to add: "standalone="no"". What does this mean?
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It is mumbo-jumbo that you only care about if you are an XML processor trying to validate against a DTD.
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4- Before the rootfile lines in container.xml there are tabs, or spaces, and I wonder if it would pose any problems omitting them to reading devices?
I know they don't for the PC.
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<rootfiles>
<rootfile .....
</rootfiles>
All questions I'm sure I'll find an answer for soon!
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It is XML. The spaces don't matter.
whitespace in XML/HTML only matters inside an element, and then it is collapsed down to one space.