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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....
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I think either 1) its along while ago or a very old Version you write about
2) you've never just tried AWP
3) the people who produce the books you write about are all dumb-asses...
Maybe all of them.
I don't know any other word-processor where you can use regex - not to speak about the many other useful features.
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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:
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Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain...
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When it should look something like this:
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<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...
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Yes, that's the mentality of most people nowadays - but this has nothing to do with the code-quality AWP produce.
More sense it makes to hit the 'Preview in epub-reader'-button (which is Sigil on my system). Than one can decide to work further in AWP (hit the Cancel-button) or to do some cosmetic changes in Sigil later (cause thatone showed by Sigil in that stage is just a temporary one) and hit the Save-button...