Fritz Leiber

[RWood]

What RSE said is basically the way I added a few of the books I posted here and also for parts of the Harvard Classics series. I have four scanners her -- film (slide), flat bed, page, and auto feeder -- that are used depending upon the original source material. OCR programs are by Abbyy, Xerox, and Omnipage. For text editing I use UltraEdit. (As an ex-mainframmer it is the best text editing program I have ever used.)

The conversion from single lines to full paragraphs is often by Stingo's Word macro (available through the MR Wiki.) This also avoids a lot of the broken paragraphs.

Once loaded into BookDesigner, hyperlinks are added for the footnotes (although many are in-line right after the reference), graphics added, and titles (chapter and subtitles) are identified. One sticking point in BD is the need for another size font for captions. Currently any centered text picks up the subtitle attributes. I am studying calibre but I am not yet happy with the results (my html is also poor.) Covers are created in Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator.

Some books are quick, others take forever.

[vivaldirules]

Oh, the pain of it all! I bleed for you, man. Or is it that you bleed for us?

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Besides, as I didn't know HTML, I didn't know what was good or bad....(Dammit, Jim - I'm a mainframer, not a Web guru...)

Originally Posted by RWood

For text editing I use UltraEdit. (As an ex-mainframmer it is the best text editing program I have ever used.)
... (my html is also poor.)

Careful, guys. You'll give us mainframers a bad reputation. Today's mainframes (err... IBM System z Servers) speak HTML as well as they speak VSAM.

I am a current mainframer supporting the CICS subsystem. Even CICS speaks HTTP, HTML, XML, SOAP, and all those cool modern Web technologies. Heck, CICS has even delivered a preview of forthcoming Web 2.0 capabilities in the form of a simple application implementing the Atom publishing protocol.

But, if you ever need help with HTML, let me know.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_L...he_Gray_Mouser

US Copyright is death + 50 years, correct? So since he died in 1992, that puts us at 2042. Do I have that correct?

No, it's death + 70 years.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by RWood

For text editing I use UltraEdit. (As an ex-mainframmer it is the best text editing program I have ever used.)

I've looked at it. I like Notepad++ at the moment, based on the Scintilla Edit Control, with code folding and syntax highlight for just about every current language.

I also like The Hessling Editor, which emulates Xedit on the mainframe and uses Rexx as the script language, and Hybrid Editor XE from a Japanese author, which also emulates Xedit. Both are cross platform and open source under the GPL.

THE: http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/index.html

Hybrid Editor XE: http://www.geocities.jp/sakachin2/index.htm
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Dennis