Rudy Rucker on Making Epubs

Snooty Baronet · 09-24-2011, 02:30 AM

The science fiction author Rudy Rucker has just posted a useful, basic guide to creating epubs using common software:

http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2011/...ur-own-ebooks/

Rudy uses Adobe Dreamweaver to filter Word crap from his (already) filtered HTML files. Is there a free HTML editor that does something similar?

Toxaris · 09-24-2011, 04:01 AM

You can easily remove it by hand. It is not that complicated and a few good RegEx expressions will help.

Keroberos · 09-24-2011, 01:50 PM

There's also a few websites that can clean word html files. I use this one ocasionally http://www.wordhtmlcleaner.co.uk/. It does have a 1 megabyte file limit so you might have to split your word file. You still have to do some cleanup though (it converts all the tags into tags)

DiapDealer · 09-24-2011, 05:02 PM

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You still have to do some cleanup though (it converts all the tags into tags)

Ouch!

Keroberos · 09-24-2011, 07:14 PM

It's actually not to bad, just find/replace the with then let Sigil automatically close the tag and you're ready to start adding your own formatting.

DiapDealer · 09-24-2011, 07:21 PM

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It's actually not to bad, just find/replace the with then let Sigil automatically close the tag and you're ready to start adding your own formatting.

I rarely let any program "automatically" make wholesale changes to my html. I'm too much of a control freak.

I've experienced disasters relying on Sigil to close tags properly on it's own (as much as I love Sigil), but if the process works for you....

Keroberos · 09-24-2011, 07:37 PM

I agree, I never let Sigil automatically close tags after I have started applying formating (I've experienced disasters there too). But as a first step if anything goes wrong not too much time is lost, usually less then the time it takes to manually remove word's retarded html formating). also I suck at regular expressions, so this way is actually faster for me (and removes almost all formating but headings, italics and bolds, so is useful for those times I want to completely remove all formating). And this seems to be one case where Sigil doesn't have a problem closing the tags automatically.

Snooty Baronet · 09-25-2011, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Keroberos

There's also a few websites that can clean word html files. I use this one ocasionally http://www.wordhtmlcleaner.co.uk/. It does have a 1 megabyte file limit so you might have to split your word file. You still have to do some cleanup though (it converts all the tags into tags)

Thanks! I'll check it out.

09-24-2011, 02:30 AM	#1
Snooty Baronet Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Iphone 4	Rudy Rucker on Making Epubs The science fiction author Rudy Rucker has just posted a useful, basic guide to creating epubs using common software: http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2011/...ur-own-ebooks/ Rudy uses Adobe Dreamweaver to filter Word crap from his (already) filtered HTML files. Is there a free HTML editor that does something similar?

09-24-2011, 01:50 PM	#3
Keroberos Zealot Posts: 128 Karma: 238654 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Kobo Mini (4GB), Nook Classic wi-fi, iPod Touch (Bluefire Reader)	There's also a few websites that can clean word html files. I use this one ocasionally http://www.wordhtmlcleaner.co.uk/. It does have a 1 megabyte file limit so you might have to split your word file. You still have to do some cleanup though (it converts all the <p> tags into <br /> tags) Last edited by Keroberos; 09-24-2011 at 02:23 PM. Reason: added more info

09-24-2011, 07:14 PM	#5
Keroberos Zealot Posts: 128 Karma: 238654 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Kobo Mini (4GB), Nook Classic wi-fi, iPod Touch (Bluefire Reader)	It's actually not to bad, just find/replace the <br /> with <p> then let Sigil automatically close the tag and you're ready to start adding your own formatting.

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Toxaris Wizard Posts: 4,520 Karma: 121692313 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Heemskerk, NL Device: PRS-T1, Kobo Touch, Kobo Aura	You can easily remove it by hand. It is not that complicated and a few good RegEx expressions will help.

09-24-2011, 07:37 PM	#7
Keroberos Zealot Posts: 128 Karma: 238654 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Kobo Mini (4GB), Nook Classic wi-fi, iPod Touch (Bluefire Reader)	I agree, I never let Sigil automatically close tags after I have started applying formating (I've experienced disasters there too). But as a first step if anything goes wrong not too much time is lost, usually less then the time it takes to manually remove word's retarded html formating). also I suck at regular expressions, so this way is actually faster for me (and removes almost all formating but headings, italics and bolds, so is useful for those times I want to completely remove all formating). And this seems to be one case where Sigil doesn't have a problem closing the tags automatically.

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