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Originally Posted by HarryT
You're a fellow Baen fan aren't you, Nat? What do you do with them?
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Indeed I am, Harry.
My approach is a bit more involved, which is why I was saying if you're not bothered by the all one size type, you should go with it.
I open the RTFs in WordPad, look at the font size of the body text -- usually it's 12 -- select everything, and do the "ctrl+shift+>" trick to bump it up so the body size is 18 while the chapters and other headings keep their proportionate sizes (for a 12 -> 18 point change that takes 3 taps, not 6 as you might expect). Then I change the font to Arial, and the regional setting to Western (just to be thorough). After that I save it back to an RTF, and open it in NotePad and manually insert the meta-data line for title and author info (it's {\info{\title
BookName}{\author
AuthorName}} if anyone cares to know
), then I save that, and I'm good to go.
Once in a while I have to go back and do specific find/replace ops. I started reading
Off Armageddon Reef and it had some peculiar character in its ellipses -- on the Reader it was showing ".█.█." instead of ". . ." -- so I had to get rid of that. And I replaced all the instances of "--" with " -- " so that the lines would break better, and it just reads better for me that way.
I've thought about doing a VB applet that would handle font face and size adjustments as well as managing meta-data in a single place (I'm looking for VB projects to do anyway), but I haven't had much time to mess with it yet, so it's not going anywhere at the moment.
