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deback · 03-25-2018, 01:09 AM

BTW, one of my settings in Transform is to change any "font-size: small;" and "font-size: medium;" to the size I want them to be. You see, all of my settings, extra CSS codes added, and transform rules take care of a lot of the things you are still editing manually. There are many things that can be done automatically in Extra CSS and Transform.

Punctuation should be smartened when you have edited a book and corrected many punctuation errors, added quotation marks, etc. I can't imagine why you said that most books don't need the punctuation smartened. But I have that performed automatically in my settings.

Beautify is necessary to fix the arrangement of everything, including line spaces between all the HTML codes. One advantage of hitting the beautify button is that when finding and replacing, you don't need the \s+ in the Find string. If you don't hit the beautify button, Find will not find all occurrences (when you don't use \s+), but after you hit the beautify button, Find will find all occurrences (without having to use \s+ in the Find string). This makes editing much quicker, because then you just have to highlight whatever you want to search for and paste it into the Find box. Quite often, there will be spaces involved, but it won't matter if you just hit the Beautify button first. (I'm talking about a string that contains space between the end of one paragraph and the beginning of the next paragraph.)

I definitely don't do "blind" conversions. You know nothing about me, so you have no idea that I'm a perfectionist, I know a lot about editing books, CSS codes, HTML, and much more that I won't go into here. I've spent hundreds of hours experimenting and perfecting my system and have edited many thousands of books to be the way I want them to be.

When you're dealing with thousands of books (like I have), there are some things that would be very time-consuming to do (for example, removing pages that publishers have added is not something I have any interest in doing and would be very time-consuming, because most of the HTML pages I see have names like blahblah_split_001.html, etc). And doing some of the things you say you do manually would be a complete waste of time, when I can do (and already do) many of them automatically.

03-25-2018, 01:09 AM	#28
deback Book E d i t o r Posts: 432 Karma: 288184 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Laptop	BTW, one of my settings in Transform is to change any "font-size: small;" and "font-size: medium;" to the size I want them to be. You see, all of my settings, extra CSS codes added, and transform rules take care of a lot of the things you are still editing manually. There are many things that can be done automatically in Extra CSS and Transform. Punctuation should be smartened when you have edited a book and corrected many punctuation errors, added quotation marks, etc. I can't imagine why you said that most books don't need the punctuation smartened. But I have that performed automatically in my settings. Beautify is necessary to fix the arrangement of everything, including line spaces between all the HTML codes. One advantage of hitting the beautify button is that when finding and replacing, you don't need the \s+ in the Find string. If you don't hit the beautify button, Find will not find all occurrences (when you don't use \s+), but after you hit the beautify button, Find will find all occurrences (without having to use \s+ in the Find string). This makes editing much quicker, because then you just have to highlight whatever you want to search for and paste it into the Find box. Quite often, there will be spaces involved, but it won't matter if you just hit the Beautify button first. (I'm talking about a string that contains space between the end of one paragraph and the beginning of the next paragraph.) I definitely don't do "blind" conversions. You know nothing about me, so you have no idea that I'm a perfectionist, I know a lot about editing books, CSS codes, HTML, and much more that I won't go into here. I've spent hundreds of hours experimenting and perfecting my system and have edited many thousands of books to be the way I want them to be. When you're dealing with thousands of books (like I have), there are some things that would be very time-consuming to do (for example, removing pages that publishers have added is not something I have any interest in doing and would be very time-consuming, because most of the HTML pages I see have names like blahblah_split_001.html, etc). And doing some of the things you say you do manually would be a complete waste of time, when I can do (and already do) many of them automatically.