Preserving Indentation

[zaph0d]

To Whom it may concern!
I've been trying to convert "The C Programming Language Ritchie & kernighan" from PDF to mobi and all the time I get the code blocks stripped of the indentation - really ugly.
Finaly I came up with some sort of solution

Settings->Conversion->Common Options->Search and replace

Search: [\s]{2}
Replace:   

It may not be very elegant but it works ))

Now this:

main()
21
{
int c, nl;
nl = 0;
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
if (c == '\n')
++nl;
printf("%d\n", nl);
}

became this:

    main()
21
    {
        int c, nl;
        nl = 0;
        while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
            if (c == '\n')
                ++nl;
        printf("%d\n", nl);
    }

Another trick

Table of contents in pdf files turns to something like this:
1.5.2 Character Counting.......................................... ........................................19
1.5.3 Line Counting.......................................... .......................................20
1.5.4 Word Counting.......................................... ..................................21

which gets carried over 2 lines.. very ugly
So, put another replacement:
Search: \.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.
Repace: <EMPTY>

Cheerz
zaph0d

[zaph0d]

Okay, PDF->EPUB(calibre), Sigil, than calibre again EPUB->MOBI seems to be a bit better, I cleared page numbers and generated proper TOC in Sigil, but its kinda too exhaustive for a personal conversion... and Im not publisher/writer

I hope, the new PDF engine is coming soon, are there alpha/beta builds I can download for personal use?

[user_none]

Originally Posted by zaph0d

I hope, the new PDF engine is coming soon

No. It is stalled. Meaning no one is currently working on it.

Originally Posted by zaph0d

are there alpha/beta builds I can download for personal use?

No, it is not yet in a usable state. With a little work it can be used to produce XML output but the code to turn that into something usable is missing.

[zaph0d]

Can I help?

[user_none]

Originally Posted by zaph0d

Can I help?

Of course. Take a look at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/c...re/ebooks/pdf/ Post on the https://launchpad.net/~calibre-devs mailing list for help. Kovid is the one working on the C code so he's the most knowledgable about it.

[bedalton]

Thanks for the tip Zaph0d, worked like a charm.