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deback · 03-27-2018, 12:46 PM

There will always be some files that need manual editing (and I do that all the time), but most of the files come out like I want them to--by running modify and convert, with all the extra CSS and transform rules I've added.

Here's an estimate:

Let's say I drag 50 books into Calibre, run modify, run convert, run ToC, run the editor to check the book for each file, automatically fix any errors found (which are usually ID errors or mimetype errors, and once in a while, typos in the .css file, since modify and convert have already fixed the rest of the errors), and then view each file in ADE 2.0.

I would estimate I will have to reopen the editor for about 10 of those 50 books to manually fix one thing (or sometimes, more, if the book is very badly coded)--usually resize the cover image, and sometimes, resize the title page image, or possibly remove codes that add blank line spaces between paragraphs, or edit the CSS code to remove the blank line spaces between paragraphs, and once in a while, I'll have to add text-align: justify to the "calibre" class because Styling did not add that from the Extra CSS codes I've added (bug in Calibre, I guess). Sometimes, I'll spend extra time to fix the top and bottom spacing for chapter titles and change the first paragraph indentation to no-indentation. I don't always do that, though, due to the huge volume of books I edit and fix.

These are just a few of the examples of things I might have to manually edit after modifying and converting (which almost always fixes the other 80% of errors that I used to spend lots of time fixing manually).

So, I can definitely say that doing all manual editing does NOT save time; it wastes much more time than is needed.

03-27-2018, 12:46 PM	#44
deback Book E d i t o r Posts: 432 Karma: 288184 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Laptop	There will always be some files that need manual editing (and I do that all the time), but most of the files come out like I want them to--by running modify and convert, with all the extra CSS and transform rules I've added. Here's an estimate: Let's say I drag 50 books into Calibre, run modify, run convert, run ToC, run the editor to check the book for each file, automatically fix any errors found (which are usually ID errors or mimetype errors, and once in a while, typos in the .css file, since modify and convert have already fixed the rest of the errors), and then view each file in ADE 2.0. I would estimate I will have to reopen the editor for about 10 of those 50 books to manually fix one thing (or sometimes, more, if the book is very badly coded)--usually resize the cover image, and sometimes, resize the title page image, or possibly remove codes that add blank line spaces between paragraphs, or edit the CSS code to remove the blank line spaces between paragraphs, and once in a while, I'll have to add text-align: justify to the "calibre" class because Styling did not add that from the Extra CSS codes I've added (bug in Calibre, I guess). Sometimes, I'll spend extra time to fix the top and bottom spacing for chapter titles and change the first paragraph indentation to no-indentation. I don't always do that, though, due to the huge volume of books I edit and fix. These are just a few of the examples of things I might have to manually edit after modifying and converting (which almost always fixes the other 80% of errors that I used to spend lots of time fixing manually). So, I can definitely say that doing all manual editing does NOT save time; it wastes much more time than is needed.