Text editing in calibre/Sigil

[cybmole]

OP: suggest you look at sigil's find & replace facilities as you seem to be doing things the long way around at present.
there's no need to copy CSS stylesheet into/from another editing program because sigil has all the edit tools that you need, built-in

ALSO: re epub to mobi. you can work on your epub file within its calibre library location - so you don't have to re-import it to calibre before converting to mobi. You access the epub via open path or via calibre plug-ins ( which are also worth learning about)

[RoyInVegas]

Originally Posted by Starson17

There are three members in the set of "10 kinds of people." You left out of the set those who know ternary but aren't sure if they know binary or not.

Ummm. Did you miss the joke, old boy? Or were you simply doing back half-gainers to show off your arcane vocabulary?

0000001 = 1 decimal in binary

0000010 = 2 decimal in binary.

Hence, there are 10 kinds of people in the world.

0000011 = 3 decimal in binary.

"ternary" is not part of the paradigm. Nor does it conform to the principal premise of the joke: "There are 10 kinds of people in the world."

Sometimes, old man, it's better to simply chuckle, rather than to stand up and strut, eh?

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[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by RoyInVegas

Sometimes, old man, it's better to simply chuckle, rather than to stand up and strut, eh?

It's hard to believe you're saying this with a straight face, you might want to take your own advice.

[dwig]

Originally Posted by RoyInVegas

... I have a JPEG cover and the full text for my novel ... I've opened the RTF text ...

OP: I assume from this that the "full text" is in RTF format. Given this, I would follow a KISS workflow, as suggested earlier, and not introduce any additional, unneaded programs into the mix. Try importing the RTF directly into calibre, converting to ePub, and editing the ePub with Sigil directly from the calibre library (easy access via the "Open containing folder" button on the toolbar).

If you are on Windows, you might try opening the RTF in Wordpad (NOT Word) and resaving to a new file and importing that new file into calibre. Wordpad with strip a lot of Word-cr&p out of the file. This may remove more formatting than you want so don't alter the original file.

[cybmole]

he does not seem interested in receiving advice, just wants to brag about his "hacking" abilities. this will be my last post to this thread.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by RoyInVegas

Ummm. Did you miss the joke, old boy? Or were you simply doing back half-gainers to show off your arcane vocabulary?

You seemed to have missed my (second) joke. I was adding to and extending the first one.

0000001 = 1 decimal in binary

0000010 = 2 decimal in binary.

Hence, there are 10 kinds of people in the world.

0000011 = 3 decimal in binary.

Yes, that's all true, but your joke is that there are 10 kinds of people in the world, and relies for its humor on the fact that it doesn't specify the base as binary. My extension to the joke is that since it didn't specify the base, (you were free to choose binary) I was free to choose a ternary system. In that system:

0000001 = 1 decimal in ternary
0000002 = 2 decimal in ternary
0000010 = 3 decimal in ternary.

Hence, there are "10 kinds" of people in the world (ternary three), and they are people who know binary, people who don't and people who aren't sure. Ternary is often used where one of the variables is indeterminate or unknown as well as taking on the two binary states of true/false. I suppose it's only funny if you know the original joke, so you 're expecting the tired answer and you know that ternary is often used to encompass a binary situation supplemented with tracking an indeterminate state.

"ternary" is not part of the paradigm.

The joke premise was "10 kinds" and didn't specify the base. Base 3 is as valid as base two.

Sometimes, old man, it's better to simply chuckle, rather than to stand up and strut, eh?

Have you considered taking your own advice? Your joke is very old, I was trying to add something creative to it. If you didn't like my addition, you could at least be polite about it.