I have a DOCX with footnotes that I wanna turn to pop-up notes in ePub on Kobo Forma

[DNSB]

I have a DOCX with footnotes that I wanna turn to pop-up notes in ePub on Kobo Forma

I have a DOCX with footnotes that I want to have pop-up notes in ePub on a Kobo Forma

I have a DOCX with footnotes that I want with pop-up notes in ePub on a Kobo Forma

The grammar Nazis are coming to take you away....

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Hitch

You know, it's funny you bring this up...dialect is one of my hot buttons, in fiction. Drives me NUTS, especially (and I think this was the original trigger for me), Scottish. So help me, if I read one more "och aye, lassie" or "dinna ken," I'll scream.

I mean, they're fine, sprinkled throughout for "flavor," right? But when a character's entire dialogue is phonetically rendered, line after line after line...AGGGGH!!

I doesn't seem to matter if it's Low Country, "Texan" (don't get me started), Irish, Scots, Russian...it's just grinding. Yes, I know, there are good-selling books that have this in them; but there are bestsellers with idiotic crap like sparkly vampires and "heroines" with the character depth of a piece of paper, too. No accounting for tastes. But once a character has been drawn, and we've "heard" his voice in our heads, OMG, give it a REST! To me, doing every single line of dialogue phonetically is the writing equivalent of exposition--telling, not showing.

If your writing is so pathetic that you have to remind me, line after line, of how your character sounds, then maybe you need to go back to the drawing board and create a character that comes alive for us, ya know?

Hitch

But luv! Are yer saying you'd not be enjoying a read of Thomas Hardy.

One of the characteristics I cherish about Hilary Mantel's writing is her dialect free dialogue. It's in the phrasing and unwritten timing.

BR

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by najgori

so, no trainspotting for ye?

Ya got that right, boyo. I dinna ken that there dang dye-a-lect.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

But luv! Are yer saying you'd not be enjoying a read of Thomas Hardy.

One of the characteristics I cherish about Hilary Mantel's writing is her dialect free dialogue. It's in the phrasing and unwritten timing.

BR

In fact, I forced myself through Hardy, for that reason. (And JTO, but simply because I struggled with the whole plotline from the time that he has the inspired concept of how to help his family's financial woes, so as not to spoil it for anyone who hasn't had...the pleasure. Not that everything I read has to be fairies and rainbows, but Moses on a Pony...)

Ditto Mantel.

Hitch

[BobC]

I'll bet you are just waiting for someone to send you something like this to work on :

“If my memory sarves me reightly, Mally, its abaght forty year sin aw tell’d thee at aw liked a boil’d egg for mi braikfast, an it seems tha’s nivver forgetten it, for it seems to me at tha’s nivver gein me owt else, an awm just abaat sick o’th seet on em.”

“Ther’s nivver onny suitin thee, Sammywell, what aw do for thi, an as to givin thi eggs to thi braikfast for forty year, tha knows it isn’t true, for aw dooant think tha’s had em moor nor once a month, if that. But tha needn’t freeat abaat that, for at th’ price eggs is nah, its just like aitin brass. Aw’ve gien em to thi a time or two latly becoss tha complained abaat feelin waik, an ther’s nowt at’s moor strength nor eggs.”

“If this is a sample aw believe tha’rt reight, for this is strong enuff to drive me aght o’th haase. Eggs is nivver fit to ait unless they’re fresh, and tha owt to know that.”

But then I suppose the title would be enough to put you off :

Yorkshire Tales, amusing sketches of Yorkshire life

Not only does spellchecking it present real problems but actually reading it, even when you are familiar with the dialect taxes the brain. Bye the way Sammywell is Samuel.

BobC

[droopy]

Off-topic, y'all.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by droopy

Off-topic, y'all.

droopy, seriously, on MR and the eBook format subforums, if it weren't for OT discussions, we'd be utterly moribund!

:-)

Hitch

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by droopy

Off-topic, y'all.

Wandering off-topic is a grand MobileRead tradition. Without going off-topic, there'd be a lot fewer messages and likely, an awful lot fewer interesting message.

It's not as if we were posting multiple threads on pretty much the same topic.

[droopy]

all right. Carry on. :P

[droopy]

Originally Posted by DNSB

It's not as if we were posting multiple threads on pretty much the same topic.

Lesson has been learned months ago.