James
- PG has no preference pro/con on page numbers in TOCs or elsewhere.
DP
more or less routinely includes them. Personally, I drop all page numbers
unless the book has an index and/or other internal references,
such footnotes that refer to other pages or a TOC that's sufficiently
complex as to serve as an near index.
As
for your choice of book, there's nothing wrong with the book itself,
but from what I've read here the past few weeks, I think you've taken on a
project that's more than your current skills/experience will let you handle
easily. Personally, I never have and never will do an ebook project by
starting from a single, monolithic text file. Far too
unwieldy.
Al
Bowerbird,
I notice a couple of things. First, you moved all the front matter
like title page, TOC, preface, etc. to the back of the book. The
TOC still has page numbers, and the lines in the TOC link to those pages, not
the actual chapter headings.
Second, you have put <pre> tags around some content that should be
just blockquoted text. The family trees should be pre-formatted, but
much of what you made pre-formatted text doesn't really need to be.
Third, I notice italicized words also have underscores before and
after.
Fourth, I noticed that this book is incredibly long and I was crazy to
work on it.
I prefer having the contents of the book be in the same order as the
original, and I think PG prefers TOCs with no page numbers. I'm not
really sure what I'm supposed to do with this HTML. Is this the output
of a light markup file you will give me? Is there some sort of web
interface coming for working on this? I could use some
clarification.
Thanks,
James Simmons
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:10 PM,
<Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
james said:
> Bowerbird has been suggesting
using light markup in text files
> so we can derive other
formats automatically and reliably.
> He will
doubtless have something to say on the subject.
thanks, but no
thanks; i've stepped off that merry-go-round.
if hunter wants to know
how he could get better results from
marcello's converters, hunter should
discuss it with marcello.
i'm more interested in having discussions
with people who
want to get better results from _my_ conversion
routines...
so, james, what do you think of this .html file of your
book?
> http://zenmagiclove.com/bhaga/bhaga-preview1.html
i
left the pagebreaks in for your convenience. you'll notice
i've
colorized the tables, family trees, and some other stuff.
all the styling
is inline, but it's a tightly-constricted subset.
take a look at that
formatting, comparing it to the p-book,
and let me know where i've gotten
any wrong, so i can fix it.
once that's right, we can take a look at
the .mobi and .epub.
(those formats are based on the .html, of
course, but i also
generate different x/html files for the two different
targets.
i'll also break the targets down to even more specific
levels,
such as .epubs specialized for the nook, adobe, or
ibooks...
there's also a slew of customization options for
end-users,
including stuff like paragraph indentation, curlyquotes,
etc.)
once you approve, the book is ready to be turned back to
you.
thank you for being so patient while it was under my
control...
-bowerbird
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