Register Guidelines E-Books Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

Go Back   MobileRead Forums > E-Book Formats > ePub

Notices

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 11-19-2012, 06:40 PM   #31
JSWolf
Resident Curmudgeon
JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
JSWolf's Avatar
 
Posts: 73,660
Karma: 127838196
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
The solution is to use Calibre to convert. Then use Sigil to clean up the conversion.
JSWolf is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-28-2012, 10:42 AM   #32
oxen
Connoisseur
oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!
 
Posts: 68
Karma: 5484
Join Date: Aug 2012
Device: Nook2, Kobo glo, Kobo mini, iPad3
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The solution is to use Calibre to convert. Then use Sigil to clean up the conversion.
Calibre-generated epub contains a large number of redundant code.This is a reason I developed EpubSTAR.
oxen is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 11-29-2012, 09:42 PM   #33
JSWolf
Resident Curmudgeon
JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
JSWolf's Avatar
 
Posts: 73,660
Karma: 127838196
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
Does EpubSTAR clean up the garbage in Word or do we still have to do it by hand after the conversion?
JSWolf is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-30-2012, 06:07 AM   #34
DSpider
Evangelist
DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DSpider ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
DSpider's Avatar
 
Posts: 450
Karma: 343115
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Romania
Device: PW2 2014
Seems that nobody mentioned this yet; plain text (.txt) is a bad idea for an e-book. If you plan on manually re-adding bolds and italics yourself, that's a VERY bad idea. It takes a significant amount of mental effort to visually "scan" every paragraph for italics and other styles, and you're bound to miss a few of them throughout the entire book.
DSpider is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-30-2012, 10:59 AM   #35
JSWolf
Resident Curmudgeon
JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
JSWolf's Avatar
 
Posts: 73,660
Karma: 127838196
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
There is such a thing as text markup. Project Gutenberg uses text markup so we know where bold & italics belong.

_text_ = italics
*text* = bold
*_text_* = bold italics
JSWolf is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 12-01-2012, 09:56 PM   #36
oxen
Connoisseur
oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!
 
Posts: 68
Karma: 5484
Join Date: Aug 2012
Device: Nook2, Kobo glo, Kobo mini, iPad3
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Does EpubSTAR clean up the garbage in Word or do we still have to do it by hand after the conversion?
EpubSTAR generates concise code, not junk code.
Therefore, we do not need to manually do the cleaning work after the coversion.
oxen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-01-2012, 10:44 PM   #37
oxen
Connoisseur
oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!
 
Posts: 68
Karma: 5484
Join Date: Aug 2012
Device: Nook2, Kobo glo, Kobo mini, iPad3
Quote:
Originally Posted by DSpider View Post
Seems that nobody mentioned this yet; plain text (.txt) is a bad idea for an e-book. If you plan on manually re-adding bolds and italics yourself, that's a VERY bad idea. It takes a significant amount of mental effort to visually "scan" every paragraph for italics and other styles, and you're bound to miss a few of them throughout the entire book.
Plain text document is not an e-book, but rather a document.What we need is an e-Book, and epub is an ideal e-book format with a rich formats. EpubSTAR is a program to convert the document into the e-book.

Perhaps you mean it is difficult to convert the txt into epub with rich format. May, in fact, txt document has not rich format as word document, and Txt-to-EPU is not convenient as Word-to-the EPUB. But EpubSTAR can identifies the chapter headings and sets it to the h1~h6 styles, and it's beautiful too.
oxen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-02-2012, 01:48 AM   #38
oxen
Connoisseur
oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!
 
Posts: 68
Karma: 5484
Join Date: Aug 2012
Device: Nook2, Kobo glo, Kobo mini, iPad3
Quote:
Originally Posted by DSpider View Post
Seems that nobody mentioned this yet; plain text (.txt) is a bad idea for an e-book. If you plan on manually re-adding bolds and italics yourself, that's a VERY bad idea. It takes a significant amount of mental effort to visually "scan" every paragraph for italics and other styles, and you're bound to miss a few of them throughout the entire book.
Text(txt) to Epub sample:
Source:The Rest Hollow Mystery.txt
Epub: The Rest Hollow Mystery.epub

Generating:
Click image for larger version

Name:	E1 cover.JPG
Views:	475
Size:	114.9 KB
ID:	97108
Click image for larger version

Name:	E2 tag.JPG
Views:	449
Size:	66.7 KB
ID:	97109
Click image for larger version

Name:	E3 generating.JPG
Views:	480
Size:	103.7 KB
ID:	97110

Figure:
Click image for larger version

Name:	E1.JPG
Views:	436
Size:	89.0 KB
ID:	97111
Click image for larger version

Name:	E2.JPG
Views:	467
Size:	74.8 KB
ID:	97112
Click image for larger version

Name:	E3.JPG
Views:	451
Size:	100.8 KB
ID:	97113
Click image for larger version

Name:	E4.JPG
Views:	457
Size:	98.3 KB
ID:	97114
Click image for larger version

Name:	E5.JPG
Views:	439
Size:	158.8 KB
ID:	97115
Click image for larger version

Name:	E6.JPG
Views:	492
Size:	104.3 KB
ID:	97116
Click image for larger version

Name:	R7.JPG
Views:	434
Size:	317.0 KB
ID:	97117
oxen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-02-2012, 06:01 AM   #39
oxen
Connoisseur
oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!
 
Posts: 68
Karma: 5484
Join Date: Aug 2012
Device: Nook2, Kobo glo, Kobo mini, iPad3
[EpubSTAR 2.5.8.21201] 2012-12-01 update:
  1. Fixed Word-to-EPUB bug of heading ID Duplicating when TOC level less than the actual heading level.
  2. Fixed Word-to-EPUB bug of copyright information item identifying failure when indenting the paragraphs.

Last edited by oxen; 12-02-2012 at 06:04 AM.
oxen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-02-2012, 11:30 PM   #40
JSWolf
Resident Curmudgeon
JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.JSWolf ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
JSWolf's Avatar
 
Posts: 73,660
Karma: 127838196
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
Why does the RAR (should be a ZIP file) file have two installer files? It has setup.exe and an msi file. Both are installers.
JSWolf is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-03-2012, 12:10 AM   #41
oxen
Connoisseur
oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!
 
Posts: 68
Karma: 5484
Join Date: Aug 2012
Device: Nook2, Kobo glo, Kobo mini, iPad3
Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Why does the RAR (should be a ZIP file) file have two installer files? It has setup.exe and an msi file. Both are installers.
exe or msi, run any one of them. Recommend running the Setup.exe.
oxen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-03-2013, 03:21 AM   #42
oxen
Connoisseur
oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!
 
Posts: 68
Karma: 5484
Join Date: Aug 2012
Device: Nook2, Kobo glo, Kobo mini, iPad3
[EpubSTAR 2.6.0.21228] 2012-12-28 update:
  1. Added regional language interface and processing capabilities of Macao for traditional Chinese users in Macao.
  2. Added page parameter customization function in built-in styles. When using built-in styles such as Oxen's Style, you can customize the page common parameters (margins, line spacing, font size, color, Text-indent and alignment, and so on).
  3. Added indentation style automatic recognition function.
  4. Added function of Word-to-EPUB "code-title" "code" style recognition to facilitate genaration of computer books.
  5. Added "code-title" "code" style in EpubSTAR beautiful Word template to facilitate genaration of computer books.
  6. Added meta-data language recognition function for Chinese and English language treatmentation.
  7. Added copyright information items recognition function, including "Title", "PubDate", "Pub Date"," Type","Category","Creator","Version","Date", and so on.
  8. Optimized Word-to-Epub TOC data collection and processing, to avoid the picture, word control characters as the heading style.
  9. Optimized blank line processing for reading software effectively display blank line to facilitate sub-section of the poetry and the classics.
  10. Optimized book information style and word style recognition ability, that books information names and Word style name is case-insensitive.
  11. Optimized regional language identification: date format to comply with regional (country) format (switch in the "View" menu).
  12. Optimized regional language identification: Epub metadata and HTML/XHTML document language to comply with regional languages (switch in the "View" menu).
  13. Optimized indentation styles treatment, which clearing space at the beginning of paragraphs in the source document to indent.
  14. Fixed the bug of subtitle being treated as the title in title page.
  15. Built-in Oxen's Style 5.6 and Oxen Font Style 2.7.
Prior to download: 57,870.

[Oxen Font Style 2.6] 2012-12-13 update:
  1. Added GBK font recognition.
  2. Added calling font path definition of Nook for Android, supporting its aesthetic reading.
  3. Rmbedded font path to upper case.
[Oxen's Style 5.5] 2012-12-13 update.
  1. Oxen Font Style upgraded to 2.6.
  2. Added Founder GBK font identification and improved the Simplified and Traditional font recognition.
  3. Added class selectors define 8 font style.
  4. fix code error of "end" style selector.
[Oxen Font Style 2.7] 2010-01-01 update:
  1. Added and optimized calling font path definition of Duokan 2012 and older version on Kindle.
  2. Optimized definition calling local fonts for Calibre E-Book accurately identifying the the local font definitions and displaying multi-font aesthetic format. ADE2.0 and Azardi Reader 2 temporarily unable to identify CSS3 local font definition.
[Oxen's Style 5.6] 2013-01-01 update:
  1. Oxen Font Style upgraded to 2.7.
  2. Optimized class selectors calling local fonts for ADE2.0, Calibre E-Book and Azardi Reader 2 accurately identifying the the local font definitions and displaying multi-font aesthetic format.
oxen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-05-2013, 01:21 AM   #43
Arios
A curiosus lector!
Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Arios's Avatar
 
Posts: 463
Karma: 2015140
Join Date: Jun 2012
Device: Sony PRS-T1, Kobo Touch
@ oxen,

I am not a faint heart, so I have tried your app (latest version 2.6.0.)

Unfortunately it does not work with my system: win 7 64 bit home premium.

The problem is related to .Net Framework and the error message is, in short:

Unhandled exception has occured in your ap....
Value cannot be nul.
Parameter name: input.
And a few details: Sys Arg NullExcep: value cannot be null...

It seems to be linked with regex, but I dont know.

Too bad!
Arios is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-07-2013, 04:33 AM   #44
oxen
Connoisseur
oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!oxen , Klaatu Barada Niktu!
 
Posts: 68
Karma: 5484
Join Date: Aug 2012
Device: Nook2, Kobo glo, Kobo mini, iPad3
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arios View Post
@ oxen,

I am not a faint heart, so I have tried your app (latest version 2.6.0.)

Unfortunately it does not work with my system: win 7 64 bit home premium.

The problem is related to .Net Framework and the error message is, in short:

Unhandled exception has occured in your ap....
Value cannot be nul.
Parameter name: input.
And a few details: Sys Arg NullExcep: value cannot be null...

It seems to be linked with regex, but I dont know.

Too bad!

Does the error occurred while starting the software, or generating EPUB?
Could you upload the source documents (txt or Word) for my test?
oxen is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-07-2013, 07:03 PM   #45
Arios
A curiosus lector!
Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Arios ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Arios's Avatar
 
Posts: 463
Karma: 2015140
Join Date: Jun 2012
Device: Sony PRS-T1, Kobo Touch
Oxen,

Thanks for your reply.

Indeed, the error occurs while starting the software. Two options are suggested: stop or continue the program. If I continue, the program window is empty and nonfunctional.

By the way I use the latest .Net Framework.
Arios is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Tags
epub app, epub application, epubstar, kf8/mobi, mobi

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Convert EPUB to word/txt/doc bookmeal Workshop 16 10-19-2014 05:42 AM
epub, ePub, EPUB, warum blos ePub? flowoeB Lounge 5 11-27-2009 09:37 AM
Creator vs. reader and the Adobe EPUB monopoly llasram News 51 07-09-2009 06:45 AM
What convertor/creator for ePub peggynek ePub 8 03-17-2009 06:03 PM


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:11 AM.


MobileRead.com is a privately owned, operated and funded community.