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PhyrePhox · 12-28-2009, 03:17 PM

I'm a bit overwhelmed at the discussions here, and I've not been able to find a "how-to" guide that starts from a fundamental point, so I'll try a thread here and hope I'm not too far off topic.
I got a Sony PRS-300 for Christmas. I have a series of books that are in .lit format. I added these files to Calibre and let it do whatever to them to let them work on my Reader. I find that there is a full space after each line, hard hyphenations, and occasional blank pages. The TOC is empty, and the metadata appears weird, i.e. it's sorting by the author's first name. I tried opening the file in Sigil, and it apparently doesn't like it when you "select all" on my iMac 2.16GHz with Snow Leopard. I installed eCub, noticed that every line has it's own entry in the XHTML files, so I tried to remove all the

Code:

<p class="MsoPlainText">

lines for an entire paragraph, and compiled the epub. Then, calibre couldn't read it.
What I'm trying to do is see what the book would look like without the linefeeds, except perhaps at the paragraph. I don't care too much about justification at this time. I would like to build the TOC, or find it in the original lit and migrate it, but I can't seem to open the lit file with anything that runs on Mac. I know that Sony only sees the metadata if it's added in a certain way, do I need to jiggle the settings in Calibre's converter? Or, do I need to go Windows to fix this in the lit file beforehand?

12-28-2009, 03:17 PM	#1
PhyrePhox Enthusiast Posts: 26 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Toronto Device: Kobo Forma, Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2	*Beginner: Converting lit to epub-linefeed hll** I'm a bit overwhelmed at the discussions here, and I've not been able to find a "how-to" guide that starts from a fundamental point, so I'll try a thread here and hope I'm not too far off topic. I got a Sony PRS-300 for Christmas. I have a series of books that are in .lit format. I added these files to Calibre and let it do whatever to them to let them work on my Reader. I find that there is a full space after each line, hard hyphenations, and occasional blank pages. The TOC is empty, and the metadata appears weird, i.e. it's sorting by the author's first name. I tried opening the file in Sigil, and it apparently doesn't like it when you "select all" on my iMac 2.16GHz with Snow Leopard. I installed eCub, noticed that every line has it's own entry in the XHTML files, so I tried to remove all the Code: <p class="MsoPlainText"> lines for an entire paragraph, and compiled the epub. Then, calibre couldn't read it. What I'm trying to do is see what the book would look like without the linefeeds, except perhaps at the paragraph. I don't care too much about justification at this time. I would like to build the TOC, or find it in the original lit and migrate it, but I can't seem to open the lit file with anything that runs on Mac. I know that Sony only sees the metadata if it's added in a certain way, do I need to jiggle the settings in Calibre's converter? Or, do I need to go Windows to fix this in the lit file beforehand?