Baen Books - Honor Harington 1 & 2 - Page 2

BobVA · 04-05-2007, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by NatCh

BTW, I've been putting my Baen books into LRF (from the RTF option) with BD. Once you get the settings the way you want them BD is so easy to use, it's not even funny.

Do tell! What settings are you using?

Cheers,
Bob

NatCh · 04-05-2007, 06:33 PM

Heh, I'll do a screen shot of them for you when I get home to the computer they're on.

NatCh · 04-05-2007, 07:14 PM

Okay, here are the settings I'm using. I use French for the language because it supports accents but otherwise has the same alphabet as English (it's the one I'm most familiar with

).

I also insert the cover art so that it becomes my title page, just like a "real" book. I s'pose I could track down the back cover blurb as well and complete the effect.

scotty1024 · 04-05-2007, 10:42 PM

@NatCh

I don't buy John Ringo ebooks from Baen for the cover art, but I will admit I do generally use Emacs to search and replace \fs24 with \fs36 before putting the RTF on my Reader. But if Sony took my pointer about how to decode the Baen cover images I wouldn't kick the cover art out of bed...

Nice screen shots though, but I will not be lead into distraction. Back to work, more Java source, less MR!

NatCh · 04-05-2007, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by scotty1024

@\fs24 ... \fs36

Would anyone care to enlighten me as to what those are? They swished right over my head, I'm afraid, and Google has failed me.

Robert Marquard · 04-06-2007, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by NatCh

BTW, I've been putting my Baen books into LRF (from the RTF option) with BD. Once you get the settings the way you want them BD is so easy to use, it's not even funny. I'm under the impression that they provide the RTF option expressly so that users can convert to their preferred format, if it's not one of their "standard" ones, so I don't think they'd object to our converting the books to LRF. I do think they'd prefer we didn't distribute them ourselves, although they've shown a remarkable restraint in that regard for folks who are distributing their CDs in whole.

Please start to think. The CDs are free to copy. Republishing is an entirely different thing.
BTW he has permission from Baen.

igorsk · 04-06-2007, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by NatCh

Would anyone care to enlighten me as to what those are? They swished right over my head, I'm afraid, and Google has failed me.

Font size.

HarryT · 04-06-2007, 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by NatCh

Okay, here are the settings I'm using. I use French for the language because it supports accents but otherwise has the same alphabet as English (it's the one I'm most familiar with [IMG]

My settings are pretty much the same as yours. The one additional option I'd suggest setting is the "User page breaks" check box. This lets you add your own manual page breaks in BD and is very handy for, for example, adding a custom TOC or introductory page at the start of the book.

The other thing I do differently is to have both "skip cover page" and "skip front page" selected, because I prefer to do my own "custom" cover and front pages for the book. (I'm not actually sure what the difference is between a "cover page" and a "front page". Do you know?)

TheMooch · 04-06-2007, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

My settings are pretty much the same as yours. The one additional option I'd suggest setting is the "User page breaks" check box. This lets you add your own manual page breaks in BD and is very handy for, for example, adding a custom TOC or introductory page at the start of the book.

The other thing I do differently is to have both "skip cover page" and "skip front page" selected, because I prefer to do my own "custom" cover and front pages for the book. (I'm not actually sure what the difference is between a "cover page" and a "front page". Do you know?)

I do the same thing. I prefer that a chapter starts on a "fresh page" rather than in the middle of it. I tend to use slightly smaller fonts than those listed in the screenshots too.

NatCh · 04-06-2007, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by igorsk

Font size.

Thanks, igorsk!

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Originally Posted by Robert Marquard

Please start to think. The CDs are free to copy. Republishing is an entirely different thing.
BTW he has permission from Baen.

The CDs themselves are carry a note that it's okay to recopy them, as long as you do the whole CD.

In any case when I said, "... I do think they'd prefer we didn't distribute them ourselves ...," I was saying that I don't think we should distribute our LRF copies -- they wouldn't like it, and it's not right besides.

The other thing I was saying is that it's rather a different matter to convert it to an LRF myself, for my own use, and not give copies to anyone else. As I said, I think that scenario is part of why they give us the RTF option.

I've spoken out against possible, and actual copyright infringement many times on MR, and don't mean to give the impression that I've backed away from that stance.

I think you and I are actually in agreement on this point, Robert: we should not redistribute any contents of any Baen CD or any offering from Baen's free library, either in a converted or original format, without Baen's specific permission.

Does that about sum it up?

HarryT · 04-06-2007, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMooch

I do the same thing. I prefer that a chapter starts on a "fresh page" rather than in the middle of it. I tend to use slightly smaller fonts than those listed in the screenshots too.

If you give your chapter headings the "Title" style, they will automatically start a new page. I only use manual pagebreaks in situations where I want a pagebreak at a point that isn't a "Title".

Nat likes ENORMOUS text in his e-books, so he uses large font sizes

.

HarryT · 04-06-2007, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by NatCh

I think you and I are actually in agreement on this point, Robert: we should not redistribute any contents of any Baen CD or any offering from Baen's free library, either in a converted or original format, without Baen's specific permission.

Does that about sum it up?

I certainly agree with this 110%

.

NatCh · 04-06-2007, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

Nat likes ENORMOUS text in his e-books, so he uses large font sizes

.

Yes, yes I do.

sartori · 04-06-2007, 09:38 AM

Harry, great job on all the posts. I was thinking about the font size choices that people like and was wondering if someone would be able to put together a program that would allow people to change them (unfortunately I don't have the skills to do it myself)

I was thinking of something that would use convert the lrf to lrs using lrs2lrs, parse the lrs looking for the book designer font size setting, give the user the choice of increase or decrease the font by increments, then convert the lrs back to lrf using lrs2lrf. From playing around with lrs files I think theres just one line for each fontstyle used in the book so it shouldn't be too hard to parse it.

This way people could reformat the books to their personal preference.

Once again thanks for all the content being posted - it's much appreciated.

slayda · 04-06-2007, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by NatCh

Yes, yes I do.

Actually I find 16 point a little small. Perhaps my eyes are older.

04-05-2007, 07:14 PM	#18
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Okay, here are the settings I'm using. I use French for the language because it supports accents but otherwise has the same alphabet as English (it's the one I'm most familiar with ). I also insert the cover art so that it becomes my title page, just like a "real" book. I s'pose I could track down the back cover blurb as well and complete the effect. Attached Thumbnails

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NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Heh, I'll do a screen shot of them for you when I get home to the computer they're on.

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scotty1024 Banned Posts: 1,300 Karma: 1479 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Peoples Republic of Washington Device: Reader / iPhone / Librie / Kindle	@NatCh I don't buy John Ringo ebooks from Baen for the cover art, but I will admit I do generally use Emacs to search and replace \fs24 with \fs36 before putting the RTF on my Reader. But if Sony took my pointer about how to decode the Baen cover images I wouldn't kick the cover art out of bed... Nice screen shots though, but I will not be lead into distraction. Back to work, more Java source, less MR!

04-06-2007, 09:38 AM	#29
sartori Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 29 Join Date: Oct 2006	Harry, great job on all the posts. I was thinking about the font size choices that people like and was wondering if someone would be able to put together a program that would allow people to change them (unfortunately I don't have the skills to do it myself) I was thinking of something that would use convert the lrf to lrs using lrs2lrs, parse the lrs looking for the book designer font size setting, give the user the choice of increase or decrease the font by increments, then convert the lrs back to lrf using lrs2lrf. From playing around with lrs files I think theres just one line for each fontstyle used in the book so it shouldn't be too hard to parse it. This way people could reformat the books to their personal preference. Once again thanks for all the content being posted - it's much appreciated.

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