08-13-2009, 07:10 AM | #76 |
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Try to disable auto-replace and other smart-ass features of Word.
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In Book Designer I run a find and replace if it hasn't come out correctly. (I copy and paste a non-breaking space plus guillemet into the replace option.) It helps to go to the View menu and check the "show nbsp" and "show inner nbsp" so that you can see the non-breaking spaces. I hope this helps. |
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08-13-2009, 08:56 AM | #78 |
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Thanks to you both, That fixed it. I have been using Word for so long I have gone soft in the head, I think - I had completely forgotten about autoreplace. Many thanks, now I can concentrate on finding all those lost ligatures, LOL
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Do these BookCleaner files convert en dashes to em dashes?
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09-13-2009, 07:36 AM | #80 |
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No, they don't deal with en dashes at all. Do en dashes need to be fixed so they stay en dashes?
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I find that without Book Cleaner, endashes become hyphens. With Book Cleaner, they become emdashes.
I tend to replace endashes with @ or # in the source text, then do a find and replace after putting the text into Book Designer. |
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Patricia is correct. With your BookCleaner files, en dashes are converted to em dashes. I just do a replace all so it's really a minor issue except where both en dashes and em dashes are used.
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Given the comparative rarity of the en-dash, it's generally easy to decide what to do with it on a case-by-case basis if one follow's Patricia's advice.
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Em-dashes become hyphens
I am using Book Cleaner files v1.7, and I have two problems:
(1) Embedded images are not preserved - this problem has been mentioned earlier and is related to the replacement of symbols in the "characters" representing the enoded images, so not much can be done. (2) All em-dashes are replaced as hyphens. Em-dashes are never preserved, and I thought that this was specifically something that book cleaner files were supposed to take care of. As em-dashes tend to be without spaces between the words they separate in ebooks (word1—word2) since they are replaced as hyphens I lose all em-dashes when I create a new book (usually FB2). Unfortunately I have stopped using the Book Cleaner files because these problems are worse than the occaissional small errors the files do fix. I have resorted to manually cleaning up the source file prior to loading into book designer, primarily: Quote:
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Of course, perhaps I am using Book Designer incorrectly, although I seem to have all the usual settings in place (language = German, etc.). So perhaps the BC files can be tweaked, but I'm not sure how. Does anyone else have these problems? It seems the handling of em-dashes is OK for most people as there have been few complaints. Cheers! |
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Orwell, if your emdashes are replaced by hyphens, then it's not clear that you have installed Book Cleaner properly. One of its functions is to preserve emdashes.
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I copy the files to the "Program Files > Book Designer > BookCleaner" folder (1.bcf, 2.bcf). Note that there are also 3 other files already there (MiddleDashes_after.bcf, MiddleDashes_before.bcf, RemoveRepeatedEmptyLines.bcf). Then in Book Designer I go to "Tools > Book Cleaner" and then select 1.bcf in the "input file: before formatting" drop-down box, and 2.bcf in the "input file: after formatting" drop-down box. Then close the window. I have checked regularly that the 1.bcf and 2.bcf files are still loaded as described above, and they always are. Should the "loaded book" section be marked as whole? I assume that is only if you want to manually trigger the clean-up again, and when the book is first loaded the cleaner files run? Am I missing anything else? My language is selected as German, and I think I have fairly basic settings selected for the program overall - see the attached pics for screencaps of my settings and the Book Cleaner window. I have noted in other posts that MS Office seems to have some effect omn Book Designer functions - is this also the case for Cleaner? Thanks for any help. |
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That all sounds perfectly correct, Orwell.
So, the next thing to ask is how you load your texts into Book Designer. Book cleaner won't work if you are cutting and pasting. I open BD then drag and drop the source text into the BD window. At the bottom of the window, there's a little commentary, where it tells you that it's finding paragrah ends, running book cleaner etc. Do you get this? |
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Having wasted your time, I have now just run some further tests, and it seems I am getting em-dashes preserved in most documents I try. I don't know what happened, but I can only guess that I had one strangely formatted source document that meant I lost the em-dahses. I will keep an eye on how it performs with further documents. My apologies. Of course, I still have the problem of losing images when the Book Cleaner files run on opening a new source file. This is quite troublesome, and I guess we are unlikely to get that issue fixed? Thanks again for your help, and apologies for the false alarm. Last edited by orwell2k; 09-15-2009 at 09:20 AM. |
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No worries, Orwell.
I make sure that I have checked the "save pictures" options in Configuration/settings. Even so, I frequently have to add the pictures by hand later. |
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