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Originally Posted by omk3
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?).
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how *were* you to know ? surely that was a deliberate trap on the part of the translator / publisher !
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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?
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ah, those words are as sweet, sweet music to my clean-code-loving ears.
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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.
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i can, alas.
karma to you for doing it right.
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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 well-deserved sense of accomplishment through it all! 
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fixed that for ya.
you're quite right, these are skills which you can use for future projects, whether you can distribute them or not. and trust me i know just what you mean : i have so little patience for bad code that i've been known to take apart a commercial epub that i've bought and redo it, even if it's not a book i'm likely to read more than once.
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
That's what's wrong! I couldn't put my finger on it all last night and most of this day. I liked the idea behind using the labels and taking a single word that was associated with Emily Dickinson and her poems, but the font just wasn't working for some reason Now I know why.  |
glad to help.
i like the idea too, and i love that font. if only i had the chance to use it more often.