03-27-2014, 02:41 AM | #16 | |
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And I hear what you're saying about the color of the car and the engine. That is my focus too. But, esp. switching over to Linux, that has seemed a little iffy too. My old process was Word-->html via "Web page filtered" (in Word)-->Sigil. It was flawless. I just had this MsOnormal stuff that was basically cleaned up with a single "replace all." So my big question now is, How to get the best html from an .odt? Some say convert it right in LO. Others say skip the html and go straight to epub via the Writer2Epub converter in LO. Or convert the .odt in Calibre to an epub. Then there's the Calibre editor where you can enter an html. What do you think? Last edited by Gregg Bell; 03-27-2014 at 03:20 AM. Reason: adding screenshot |
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03-28-2014, 06:04 AM | #17 |
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No need to go quite that far! But, if writing in Word, learn your tools. If you're still at the stage where you can't quite understand why it's wrong to centre a heading by prefacing a string of spaces, your ebook conversion is going to have problems!
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03-28-2014, 10:41 AM | #18 |
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Greg, what I do is run the doc file (created in Word or in Open Office Writer/LibreWriter) through word2cleanhtml.com online. In my experience, OO Writer produces slightly different results. For example, once I got <p=NORMAL> instead of simply <p> so I did a quick search & replace. (I could also have modified the style sheet to accommodate p.NORMAL.)
Assuming your intention is to publish the result through online retailers, note that Calibre-generated files are sometimes (often?) rejected by Kindle Direct Publishing. |
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03-28-2014, 02:39 PM | #20 |
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I think because of the end of life for Windows/XP and Greg wanting to move to a supported environment....
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Hell, I have two XP boxes here that are still functioning; one has older, never-updated software on it that we still use. I haven't marked out their tombstones yet. Hitch |
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03-28-2014, 03:30 PM | #22 |
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Hitch; I agree fully. No reason at all to stop using XP. Its like all the hype that ATM machines are often based on XP. Heck... they are on a controlled, NON public network with strict change management in place... How on EARTH are they going to be exploited!
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03-28-2014, 03:48 PM | #23 |
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Had a friend call me the other other day in a full-on panic. He was convinced his XP machine was going to stop functioning on <whatever-date-Microsoft-indicated-support-was-stopping>.
I tried to convince him otherwise, but I'm not sure I succeeded. I think he was just humoring me, and still ordered a brand new PC as soon as he hung up with me. |
03-28-2014, 03:59 PM | #24 |
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Well, if you are exposing your XP machine to the internet you will be at risk more of course. To be honest, the support length for XP has been more than generous for an operating system.
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XP, on the other hand (and Office 2003) have been supported for dog's years, nearly, what, 11-13 years, or something like that? That's un-freaking-believable. I'm not nuking my XP laptop yet, not until I can snag the Surface Pro 2 that I've been waiting (and waiting and waiting) for. (The wait for which getteth on my nerveth). Hitch |
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And XP is going to work come April 8th. Some of the browsers too. MSE is extended. But the OS is not supported. I can't see working long-term like that. And I don't know enough about VM and running XP in it. If I do that, will I be vulnerable to a virus (post April 8th)? That might be a good solution for me. I miss XP just because I was so used to it. Now it's like I'm re-inventing the wheel every single day. (Eg. Today I needed a .mobi and had no Kindle Previewer to convert my .epub. Which amounts to a time-wasting pain in the derriere.) But there's got to be some kind of middle ground/hybrid that will work. And, Hitch, you were like, '.doc, .odt, etc. doesn't matter,' but I'm finding that .odt and the styles in LO are not as dependable as the styles in Word and Office 2003. So I don't know. I'm still on the fence. |
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FWIW : I run an OS/2 Warp system to maintain process control software used at a couple of sugar mills. OS/2 Warp support officially came to an end 2006, practically it came to an end in 2001. I occasionally have it connected to the 'net.
MS is second to IBM in supporting its legacy. There's an IBM mainframe utility, IEBGENER (amongst many others), that was first released on OS/360 (1964), at that time Messrs Gates and Jobs were both 9 years of age. It is still there in today's z/OS - 50 years later. Its comforting to know that the JCL I wrote at ICI in the '60s could be working at AkzoNobel today :lol: BR |
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