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Old 02-18-2008, 09:48 PM   #136
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I don't know if anyone's stopped fiddling with the format for long enough to actually read "Mistborn", but if you enjoyed it, you might like to know that Brandon Sanderson has another novel for free, a new one, as yet unpublished in dead tree format (DTF?), available in lots of formats at http://manybooks.net/titles/sanderso...arbreaker.html
Thanks for the heads up. Question. Are most books from Manybooks as poorly formatted as this one? I downloaded the Sony lrf and it's formatting is terrible.
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Old 02-18-2008, 09:51 PM   #137
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Old 02-19-2008, 05:26 AM   #138
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Manybooks uses makelrf which was made in the old times of Librie and doesn't do much more than plain text.
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Old 02-19-2008, 11:35 AM   #139
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Is it wrong for me to wait for illustrious JSWOLF to format this text for me?

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Old 02-19-2008, 11:57 AM   #140
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I'm still reading and fixing errors due to fi and fl. But it's overall in a pretty good format.
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Old 02-19-2008, 12:02 PM   #141
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I'm still reading and fixing errors due to fi and fl. But it's overall in a pretty good format.
I still don't understand how this is happening. The HTML doesn't have this problem, the RTF I exported doesn't have this problem, only in BD does it crop up.

BD just doesn't like the letters fi and fl?

I have the RTF open in wordpad right now and its perfect, if I look at the source of the HTML the words Fiction and Find are both just text. What exactly is causing it?

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Old 02-19-2008, 01:01 PM   #142
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I still don't understand how this is happening. The HTML doesn't have this problem, the RTF I exported doesn't have this problem, only in BD does it crop up.

BD just doesn't like the letters fi and fl?

I have the RTF open in wordpad right now and its perfect, if I look at the source of the HTML the words Fiction and Find are both just text. What exactly is causing it?

Thanks,

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Look at the HTML source. I didn't notice until it was too far into the conversion. You'll see that fi and fl (both in lowercase) are not real ascii letters. Do a search and replace and fix it and you'll be able to loa dit in fine with BD.
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Old 02-19-2008, 01:12 PM   #143
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Actually that is not the meaning of Kern. It is the meaning of Ligatures. Kern is a term that means the removal of some of the space between letters to make them fit together and look nice on a page but it is not the combining of two letters into one. Kerning can also be applied (I believe) to a technique of adjusting the letter spacing to as a way to achieve full justification, or at least it has a roll in that effort.

Ligatures are, of course related to kerning in the sense of providing a certain 'look' to a page.

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Yeah, I remembered that when someone posted about ligatures later. Had my terms mixed up. Sorry about that!
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Old 02-19-2008, 04:12 PM   #144
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Look at the HTML source. I didn't notice until it was too far into the conversion. You'll see that fi and fl (both in lowercase) are not real ascii letters. Do a search and replace and fix it and you'll be able to loa dit in fine with BD.
Well butter my backside and call me a biscuit, you are right. until I actually went INTO the source not just looked at it and tried to place the cursor between the f and the i did I notice I couldn't do it. I am replacing the fi and fl now, the rest of the formatting (italics and such are fine...) Though I have yet to have BD pick up on those properly.

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Old 02-19-2008, 04:43 PM   #145
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Well butter my backside and call me a biscuit, you are right. until I actually went INTO the source not just looked at it and tried to place the cursor between the f and the i did I notice I couldn't do it. I am replacing the fi and fl now, the rest of the formatting (italics and such are fine...) Though I have yet to have BD pick up on those properly.

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I tried to fix the problem via Book Cleaner and it didn't work. Don't know why.
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Well butter my backside and call me a biscuit, you are right. until I actually went INTO the source not just looked at it and tried to place the cursor between the f and the i did I notice I couldn't do it. I am replacing the fi and fl now, the rest of the formatting (italics and such are fine...) Though I have yet to have BD pick up on those properly.
I did flag this back in post #120, guys...
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Old 02-20-2008, 07:29 AM   #147
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Has anyone from the UK recieved a reply from Tor Books? I registered a few days ago but have so far got no reply.
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The same here.
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I got a reply. I'm in Ireland. Maybe you should try an email address that's not geographically specific. That could be the problem. They may not want to distribute too widely for the usual copyright reasons.
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I got a reply. I'm in Ireland. Maybe you should try an email address that's not geographically specific. That could be the problem. They may not want to distribute too widely for the usual copyright reasons.
I used an address that is very specific located in The Netherlands. I got a reply and and a link to the book
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