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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Sorry for the confusion, I didn't mean to imply I used Atlantis for word processing. I just clean up ePubs that are created from it - and other automated output software programs.
I'm sure AWP does a fine job creating documents...just like Word or any other software. The issue comes when you save as an ePub. The algorithm used to convert its internal markup into the html/xml and css is very .... robotic??? .... literal .... non-intuitive....
For example:
If the author highlighted most of a word, but missed a letter, then selected a Bold font....then realized they missed a letter, highlighted the missed letter, then selected the same Bold font, you could have code that looked like this:
(snipped to save your eyeballs)
When it should look something like this:
Code:
<p><strong>"Hello!"</strong></p>
<p>"Hi!"</p>
<p>"How are you?"</p>
<p>"Good! You?"</p>
with CSS:
p {font-family:serif}
strong {font-weight:bold; font-family:sanserif}
And I WISH I was exaggerating!!
Of course, as with any software, if you use it properly you can minimize some of this mess, and with the use of plugins or macros, etc. you can fix some of the crud. But that would imply a certain basic understanding of the desired outcome that most people don't want to take the time to learn....sooooo, they just hit the "save-as-epub" button and think they have a good ePub... |
I've seen it and cleaned it, and if God loves me, she'll never send me another like that one. ;-) We get a doozy like that at least once a month. (When a given bookmaker on my Crew is on my personal s**tlist, I give it to that bookmaker, ha!)
Hitch