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Old 02-27-2010, 12:58 PM   #8
jackie_w
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Originally Posted by sjohnson717 View Post
But Jackie, how do I now manage my files? I have an RTF (source) saved as a HTM (copy) which I manually add to Calibre, which converts it to a Zip. When I edit the file (eg, for typos) must I edit the RTF, delete the HTM and ZIP and manually re-add them?
It depends. Personally, I keep a backup source (away from calibre) for all my books. For any book I've needed/wanted to edit, which started life as RTF, DOC, TXT (and sometimes PDF, LIT) I keep only my updated HTML.
  1. If you think you will only need to make minor changes from now on, I would throw away the RTF and keep the HTML as the backup source. If you need to do minor re-edits (e.g.typos) it's easy enough to load the HTML file into a text editor to make the changes. Or, if you prefer you can reload the HTML into MSWord then re-save as Web(filtered) when you're done. Then re-import the new HTML into calibre.
  2. However, if you know you may still have a lot of edits to do then I would save the file, firstly as DOC (rather than RTF), and secondly as HTML Web(filtered). Then proceed as in 1. If you need to do more edits, edit the DOC file then re-save as HTML. You can store this intermediate DOC file in calibre as an extra format for the same book if you wish to store it there.

So I suppose I'm saying, once I've decided to edit the RTF it serves no further purpose.

The reason I keep my HTML as a backup source is that I think calibre makes changes to it during the import/zip process (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I choose not to apply my re-edits to the ZIP (although I suppose you could edit typos easily enough). I don't think any changes (other than file rename) are made to other filetypes (e.g. LIT, PDF, TXT, EPUB, DOC, RTF etc).

Anyway there's some things for you to consider. There is no "right" way.

P.S. I should have added to my first post, in case you don't know already. Once you have the h1, h2 etc headings in your calibre HTML/ZIP you can use them in your conversion process for Chapter detection and to create a nice TOC in your EPUB.
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