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Originally Posted by jackie_w
Most people just want to do a quick-and-dirty so they can start reading ASAP - and there's nothing wrong with that. A year ago I thought I was one of those people myself. It's just that once I started "cleaning" ebook text using macros I found it rather addictive. I hate repetitive tasks. I'm also retired so I can afford to spend time learning/developing new stuff. It's the one thing I miss about being gainfully employed.
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I also used to just use RTF and drop it on my device but then I found that I liked how the stories looked in LRF and started formatting them. It's hard going back to RTF or not having chapter headers start on their own page like what I had in my earlier versions. Converting documents isn't hard what's hard is getting a consistent style across all the documents that are formatted.
I end up doing a lot of formatting for a fan fiction archive so I try to keep it plain, simple, and consistent.
Macros are truly a lifesaver. I'm thinking I may want to at some point expand upon that in the tutorial because truly they can save so much time.
But yeah, my goal for the tutorial was to make it as easy as possible with fewer steps towards getting a decent ebook. I don't even think my method is all that easy because I'm opening about three different programs and have settings all over the place and there are weird exceptions that only apply to epub.
I've learned a lot since I started formatting.