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deback · 11-18-2017, 01:40 PM

"If you posted single issue posts in the relevant locations, this sort of confusion would not occur."

Well, shame on me!

Notwithstanding the negativity and hostility in this forum (don't worry...I've gotten used to it...I just turn it all into positive thoughts), I want to take a moment and thank all of you who gave me tips on how to do much more with the conversion options and for letting me know about the existence of the Polish Books and Modify EPUB plugins. I've been able to accomplish many more things since then, and now, the only times I have to manually edit books (books that I've already edited, reformatted, etc, that I'm going through and redoing many things) is when (after converting) there is a duplicate cover image (due to the original cover image and titlepage not being marked as the cover image and cover titlepage by the publisher) and when the cover image is not centered (when it was centered in the original file--I just have to add the text-align: center; rule in the CSS file). I've even figured out how to use the Transform Styles section, which is working great to get rid of line-heights more than 1.2 and indents that are not 1.2em.

Thank you all very much! And especially a big, warm thanks to Kovid Goyal for his example for the entries in Styling (in addition to writing this program!), which has also helped immensely to lessen the time I spend manually editing EPUB files!

By the way, creating a new Windows user eliminated the various problems I was having with my original Windows user account. I believe my original user setup was corrupt somewhere (Windows Installer, I believe). In a few days, I'll be building a system with the i7-8700k CPU, the AORUS Z370 Gaming 7 motherboard, EVGA GeForce GT 730 video card, Le Grand Macho heatsink, EVGA 850W G3 PSU, and a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. This new computer should speed up things greatly.

11-18-2017, 01:40 PM	#11
deback Book E d i t o r Posts: 432 Karma: 288184 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Laptop	"If you posted single issue posts in the relevant locations, this sort of confusion would not occur." Well, shame on me! Notwithstanding the negativity and hostility in this forum (don't worry...I've gotten used to it...I just turn it all into positive thoughts), I want to take a moment and thank all of you who gave me tips on how to do much more with the conversion options and for letting me know about the existence of the Polish Books and Modify EPUB plugins. I've been able to accomplish many more things since then, and now, the only times I have to manually edit books (books that I've already edited, reformatted, etc, that I'm going through and redoing many things) is when (after converting) there is a duplicate cover image (due to the original cover image and titlepage not being marked as the cover image and cover titlepage by the publisher) and when the cover image is not centered (when it was centered in the original file--I just have to add the text-align: center; rule in the CSS file). I've even figured out how to use the Transform Styles section, which is working great to get rid of line-heights more than 1.2 and indents that are not 1.2em. Thank you all very much! And especially a big, warm thanks to Kovid Goyal for his example for the entries in Styling (in addition to writing this program!), which has also helped immensely to lessen the time I spend manually editing EPUB files! By the way, creating a new Windows user eliminated the various problems I was having with my original Windows user account. I believe my original user setup was corrupt somewhere (Windows Installer, I believe). In a few days, I'll be building a system with the i7-8700k CPU, the AORUS Z370 Gaming 7 motherboard, EVGA GeForce GT 730 video card, Le Grand Macho heatsink, EVGA 850W G3 PSU, and a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. This new computer should speed up things greatly. Last edited by deback; 11-18-2017 at 11:34 PM.