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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
"completely useless" ?? learning xhtml and css and epub ??? surely you jest !  |
Well it was kinda useless, typing a whole book that I already have (in both greek and english translations by the way - was it my fault that they had different titles? how was I to know?).
But it was a great motive for learning. Typed it in openoffice, exported to html, then converted to epub with calibre, even added my own fonts as an experiment. But then I started thinking, why not do it
properly?
So yesterday I read on xhtml and css (I used to work with html but quit before css became popular), and now I'm revisiting this awful html (I can't believe the garbage that's in there) and lovingly cleaning it, leaving only the bare essentials. Next step, creating my first css to go with it, and then preparing all that for epub packaging.
Ridiculously lot of work for something that only I will read (it is copyrighted after all), and I can already read it from the paper book anyway.
But, if I find I can actually do it, I may put my new-found skills to better use by actually formatting something I
can distribute. Plus I feel a silly sense of accomplishment through it all!
