Formatting Gutenberg txt Files - Page 3

AnsgarSerif · 11-01-2006, 03:05 PM

That's the second time I've heard that analogy today - and I can't for the life of me figure out why clams are so inexplicably happy

Glad it worked!

Sam

Bob Russell · 11-01-2006, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by AnsgarSerif

That's the second time I've heard that analogy today - and I can't for the life of me figure out why clams are so inexplicably happy

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hap1.htm

Quote:

The saying is very definitely American, hardly known elsewhere. The fact is, we’ve lost its second half, which makes everything clear. The full expression is happy as a clam at high tide or happy as a clam at high water. Clam digging has to be done at low tide, when you stand a chance of finding them and extracting them. At high water, clams are comfortably covered in water and so able to feed, comparatively at ease and free of the risk that some hunter will rip them untimely from their sandy berths. I guess that’s a good enough definition of happy.

AnsgarSerif · 11-01-2006, 03:55 PM

Bob, that's awesome. Simply awesome.

As a former Alaskan clam-hunter (I was three and it was the best fun of my life) and as an Oxford English Dictionary enthusiast (can you believe the word "snarky" dates back to 1906?), I tip my hat to you.

Thanks - now I know the whole story!

Sam

AnsgarSerif · 11-01-2006, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by kukafei

Sam,

I tried your tool and it works great. The only problem is that the PDF output is blank starting at page 1000 and page turns get really slow (several seconds) later on. The same thing happened with custom PDF's I printed from manybooks.net, but it seems to be a problem with the files and not the reader as someone else made a large PDF file that works fine (see this post https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4984#post44984 ).

kukafei,

I encoded Tolstoy's "War and Peace" into an ODT file, a RTF file, a PDF created using OpenOffice.org and a PDF printed in Adobe Acrobat. The file size is ~13MB, so I'll have to wait a day or so to upload it (I'm one of the few souls left unable to get high-speed Internet - 19.2 kbps!).

I don't have a Reader, so could you please troubleshoot this for me and tell me if the RTF and the PDFs display correctly?

Thanks!

Sam

njt · 11-01-2006, 10:32 PM

I've tried out your newest version and no problem so far

Works smooth, fast and is efficient

. All I have to do is do some small edits after words but nothing too bad. Thanks much!

AnsgarSerif · 11-02-2006, 10:02 PM

kukafei,

Here you go - the zip file has an ODT file, an RTF file, and a PDF printed on Adobe Acrobat. I can't upload the PDF exported from OpenOffice, since it's 9MB, so you may have to use the ODT to export a PDF on your end. If you've got the time to spare, could you go through and see which ones (if any) work?

Thanks!

Sam

kukafei · 11-08-2006, 09:02 PM

Sam,

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you- I was out of town.

I tried out the files, and here's the scoop:

RTF files have no problem (I just increase the font size a bit so they're more readable)

PDF files: the sample you gave me with acrobat worked fine, though it was only partial (I'm assuming this was a portion of the text)
exporting it from Open Office either with your macro or the built in PDF export function caused the same problems (very slow and later pages missing).

I also tried printing the files to PDF manually, and PrimoPDF came up with the same problems, but AcrobatWriter worked fine. So it seems to be the PDF software- apparently only Acrobat works. Don't know if there's any way to fix this except use Acrobat. But the RTF files work great, so I will probably just stick with them.

Thanks again for all your work!

AnsgarSerif · 11-12-2006, 01:17 PM

kukafei,

Now it's my turn to apologize for the delay in replying! I've been getting kicked around for the last week by my tonsillectomy. It makes fine sense - just when I can't eat anything is when I get a week-long hunger for orange chicken ...

Well, I suppose RTFs will have to do for now, eh? Seems a shame that the longest books are the ones that have to go without automatic bookmarks. I'm going to start playing around with BookDesigner in a bit, though, so maybe we'll be able to mash something up with the two programs. Barring that, I'm sure there will be a BBeB extension to OpenOffice.org when Sony finally releases the specs.

Thanks for testing those for me!

Sam

Dalton · 11-18-2006, 12:01 PM

I was able to easily format Gutenberg texts using "Autoformat" in Word 2000. This got rid of the hard line breaks inside of paragraphs. The procedure is simple and quick, and the default formatting is fine.

1. Open the Gutenberg text file in Word

2. Select "Autoformat" from the "Format" menu

3. Set the title and author in "Properties" in the "File" menu

4. Save the file as .RTF

5. Import the RTF file in the Connect Reader application

It took only a few seconds to make a couple of long books this way -- "The Golden Bough" came to 1,687 pages, and "Notre Dame de Paris," in French, came to 875 pages.

fredwang · 09-21-2011, 02:17 AM

hi,

would you still have a copy of the five separate macros as i only need to run two of them for a different style of file?

regards

niboraus

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11-01-2006, 03:05 PM	#31
AnsgarSerif Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony PRS-500	That's the second time I've heard that analogy today - and I can't for the life of me figure out why clams are so inexplicably happy Glad it worked! Sam

11-01-2006, 03:55 PM	#33
AnsgarSerif Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony PRS-500	Bob, that's awesome. Simply awesome. As a former Alaskan clam-hunter (I was three and it was the best fun of my life) and as an Oxford English Dictionary enthusiast (can you believe the word "snarky" dates back to 1906?), I tip my hat to you. Thanks - now I know the whole story! Sam

11-01-2006, 10:32 PM	#35
njt Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 14 Join Date: Oct 2006	I've tried out your newest version and no problem so far Works smooth, fast and is efficient . All I have to do is do some small edits after words but nothing too bad. Thanks much!

11-08-2006, 09:02 PM	#37
kukafei Member Posts: 24 Karma: 4158 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony Reader PRS-600, Kindle DX	Sam, Sorry it took me so long to get back to you- I was out of town. I tried out the files, and here's the scoop: RTF files have no problem (I just increase the font size a bit so they're more readable) PDF files: the sample you gave me with acrobat worked fine, though it was only partial (I'm assuming this was a portion of the text) exporting it from Open Office either with your macro or the built in PDF export function caused the same problems (very slow and later pages missing). I also tried printing the files to PDF manually, and PrimoPDF came up with the same problems, but AcrobatWriter worked fine. So it seems to be the PDF software- apparently only Acrobat works. Don't know if there's any way to fix this except use Acrobat. But the RTF files work great, so I will probably just stick with them. Thanks again for all your work!

11-12-2006, 01:17 PM	#38
AnsgarSerif Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony PRS-500	kukafei, Now it's my turn to apologize for the delay in replying! I've been getting kicked around for the last week by my tonsillectomy. It makes fine sense - just when I can't eat anything is when I get a week-long hunger for orange chicken ... Well, I suppose RTFs will have to do for now, eh? Seems a shame that the longest books are the ones that have to go without automatic bookmarks. I'm going to start playing around with BookDesigner in a bit, though, so maybe we'll be able to mash something up with the two programs. Barring that, I'm sure there will be a BBeB extension to OpenOffice.org when Sony finally releases the specs. Thanks for testing those for me! Sam

11-18-2006, 12:01 PM	#39
Dalton Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: San Francisco Device: Sony PRS-500	I was able to easily format Gutenberg texts using "Autoformat" in Word 2000. This got rid of the hard line breaks inside of paragraphs. The procedure is simple and quick, and the default formatting is fine. 1. Open the Gutenberg text file in Word 2. Select "Autoformat" from the "Format" menu 3. Set the title and author in "Properties" in the "File" menu 4. Save the file as .RTF 5. Import the RTF file in the Connect Reader application It took only a few seconds to make a couple of long books this way -- "The Golden Bough" came to 1,687 pages, and "Notre Dame de Paris," in French, came to 875 pages.

09-21-2011, 02:17 AM	#40
fredwang Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: none	hi, would you still have a copy of the five separate macros as i only need to run two of them for a different style of file? regards niboraus

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