I am using Book Cleaner files v1.7, and I have two problems:
(1) Embedded images are not preserved - this problem has been mentioned earlier and is related to the replacement of symbols in the "characters" representing the enoded images, so not much can be done.
(2) All em-dashes are replaced as hyphens. Em-dashes are never preserved, and I thought that this was specifically something that book cleaner files were supposed to take care of. As em-dashes tend to be without spaces between the words they separate in ebooks (word1—word2) since they are replaced as hyphens I lose all em-dashes when I create a new book (usually FB2).
Unfortunately I have stopped using the Book Cleaner files because these problems are worse than the occaissional small errors the files do fix. I have resorted to manually cleaning up the source file prior to loading into book designer, primarily:
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Replace all em-dashes with <space>—<space>, which then allows me to do a global search and replace in book designer to replace all <space>-<space> with <space>—<space> (because em-dashes become dashes on import - I could just go back to replacing the spaced dashes with em-dashes alone "—" but I prefer having spaced em-dashes for readability (although not perhaps "correct" formatting). In truth I create FB2 books using middle dashes (effectively en-dashes) so I like the spaced dashes for seperators in this case - em-dashes are just too large for my taste.
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Of course, I then have to go and check manually for things like weapons calibres (.38, .45, etc.) as they tend to be without leading spaces. After FB2 creation I also have to do the ampersand check as these are incorrectly generated. First I open the FB2 file (XML) in a text editor then do a global search and replace in two stages:
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Find (without quotes) " amp; " and Replace with " & "
Find (without quotes) " amp;" and Replace with "&"
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The first case handles situations like "Henry & Co." by keeping spaces around the ampersand. Once these are fixed, the second case picks up all the other non-spaced ampersand instances (such as R&D).
Of course, perhaps I am using Book Designer incorrectly, although I seem to have all the usual settings in place (language = German, etc.). So perhaps the BC files can be tweaked, but I'm not sure how. Does anyone else have these problems? It seems the handling of em-dashes is OK for most people as there have been few complaints. Cheers!