e-Book Tools - a Word add-in

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by EditorOne

I’m going to give this add-in a try. Thanks, Toxaris. I especially like the prospect of looking for all accented words. The manuscript I’m working with now has a good deal of Spanish in it, as well as some Apache language which uses accents, but also letters with a line through them (example: Daĵɨdɨl).

I do have a question about what fonts I should be using that will ensure the various e-readers will be able to produce such letters instead of inserting an empty box if they are not available in the reader. I need both a serif and a sans-serif font for this manuscript. The Apache parts will use the sans-serif font. Is it best to try to embed the fonts or to specify in the code serif or sans-serif and hope for the best?

Thanks.

At the moment not all accented words will be found, at the moment only vowels as used in (western) European languages. So, no ñ of ç for example. The example in Apache language as you specified will not come up.
I can add those to the checklist of course and I will do so. I have created an issue for this. If you want, you can add more characters to this list.
The currently checked characters are in this list.

Now with regards to your other question. Most readers support the Latin and often the Extended Latin characters. Eastern European characters, Greek and Cyrillic can be hit and miss as far as I know.
So, if you have other characters, you would be best of by including a font to your ePUB and specify the usage of those fonts where needed. So, if you want text to render in a font that supports Apache, add the font and ensure that the text use that font.

[kbaerwald]

Hi Toxaris

Scene detection in the preparation part of the add-in is a really helpful thing. However - very often I come upon scene changes which are indicated merely by a paragraph without indentation (no hanging indent). Then the following paragraphs have hanging indents.

Would it be technically possible to add such a scene break indicator/criterium to your preparation module?

Thanks, Klaus

[EditorOne]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

At the moment not all accented words will be found, at the moment only vowels as used in (western) European languages. So, no ñ of ç for example. The example in Apache language as you specified will not come up.
I can add those to the checklist of course and I will do so. I have created an issue for this. If you want, you can add more characters to this list.
The currently checked characters are in this list.

Now with regards to your other question. Most readers support the Latin and often the Extended Latin characters. Eastern European characters, Greek and Cyrillic can be hit and miss as far as I know.
So, if you have other characters, you would be best of by including a font to your ePUB and specify the usage of those fonts where needed. So, if you want text to render in a font that supports Apache, add the font and ensure that the text use that font.

Thank you, Toxaris.
Very helpful response. I suspected the best route would be to embed the font I know will render accurately.

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by EditorOne

Thank you, Toxaris.
Very helpful response. I suspected the best route would be to embed the font I know will render accurately.

No problem. However, please keep in mind that most fonts are not allowed to be used for embedding without a license (e.g. pay for it). If the book is for personal use this is of course not an issue.

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by kbaerwald

Hi Toxaris

Scene detection in the preparation part of the add-in is a really helpful thing. However - very often I come upon scene changes which are indicated merely by a paragraph without indentation (no hanging indent). Then the following paragraphs have hanging indents.

Would it be technically possible to add such a scene break indicator/criterium to your preparation module?

Thanks, Klaus

Yes, it would be possible. However, please keep in mind that this is a very specific case. Also, if the source is OCR you can get incorrect results. Consider the situation that a sentence in a paragraph ends at the end of a line. The next line would start with a new sentence that is part of the same paragraph. The option you describe would then result in an incorrect scenebreak instead of the next line in the paragraph of perhaps the next paragraph. So, it could lead to quite incorrect results.

Most scene breaks have at least some white space between the lines.

If you still want it, please put it on the issue list and I will take a look at it.

[kbaerwald]

Thanks - I will do this. Attached is a screenshot of my issue.

Klaus

P.S. The scene break is the chapter of short story writers

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by kbaerwald

Thanks - I will do this. Attached is a screenshot of my issue.

Klaus

P.S. The scene break is the chapter of short story writers

The example you gave should already result into a detected scenebreak. There is a white line between the paragraphs. If not, there is something else wrong.

[kbaerwald]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

The example you gave should already result into a detected scenebreak. There is a white line between the paragraphs. If not, there is something else wrong.

Unfortunately it did not: the current representation of that scene break in Word 2016 is the paragraph before with an extended spacing - no white line.

Maybe I have to find another way to solve this ...

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by kbaerwald

Unfortunately it did not: the current representation of that scene break in Word 2016 is the paragraph before with an extended spacing - no white line.

Maybe I have to find another way to solve this ...

Can you sent me an example file that has this behavior? Then I can take a look at it why it doesn't do what it should have done.

[EditorOne]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

No problem. However, please keep in mind that most fonts are not allowed to be used for embedding without a license (e.g. pay for it). If the book is for personal use this is of course not an issue.

Yes. I'm aware of that and will make sure I do get the license. I have done that in the past for clients. Thanks again. It's a good reminder.

[Toxaris]

Version 1.25 has just been released. Look at the changelog for all changes.
New function is an insert symbol procedure (right-click will place the symbol on the clipboard). The characters on the form can be user defined to a maximum of 90 characters. Another new setting is the option to select the minimum distance for the scene break detection. The default value of 2.5pt should be sufficient for most cases (that was the hard-coded value before).
The ribbon is updated. Some procedures are moved to other locations. There is also an setting that controls the icon sizes. For all procedures the icon size can be set to large or small. This can be done in the settings menu.

[BetterRed]

Can't hide 'Symbol' icon in the Ribbon via checking in Configure Ribbon.

For future consideration. Allow users to control the order of buttons on the ribbon so that the order matches their workflow. Check Dialogue is one of the last things I do, but now it's first button in my ribbon.

BR

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Can't hide 'Symbol' icon in the Ribbon via checking in Configure Ribbon.

For future consideration. Allow users to control the order of buttons on the ribbon so that the order matches their workflow. Check Dialogue is one of the last things I do, but now it's first button in my ribbon.

BR

Will check the Symbol hiding.

I am not sure how doable it will be to let the user control the order of the buttons. I haven't looked into it (I have thought about it) yet. It might be possible.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

Will check the Symbol hiding.

I am not sure how doable it will be to let the user control the order of the buttons. I haven't looked into it (I have thought about it) yet. It might be possible.

Suddenly two more items checked as not needed are showing, viz:



They weren't there this morning, otherwise I would have mentioned them.

Added: I moved Settings to the Small icon size list and behold, begosh and begorrah the Postprocess OCR and Field codes items disappeared from the ribbon. I'm attaching the config file as it is now



BR(exit)

[Toxaris]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Suddenly two more items checked as not needed are showing, viz:

Attachment 149877

They weren't there this morning, otherwise I would have mentioned them.

Added: I moved Settings to the Small icon size list and behold, begosh and begorrah the Postprocess OCR and Field codes items disappeared from the ribbon. I'm attaching the config file as it is now

Attachment 149878

BR(exit)

I will, of course, check this. It is strange, since the names have not changed, only the label.