Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
the xhtml crowd needs to do some tutorial threads.
you guys seem to have all the answers. so spill 'em! :+)
Please tell me you didn't infer all that from the discussion that ensued from Jim's thoughts on fixing paragraph separation on the Kindle?
i've been showing people to proceed from "raw" o.c.r.
but evidently that's old-fashioned... nowadays we just wave our hands in the air, and out pops finished .html.
Along with a straw man, apparently.
(pointers to all those "existing tools" will be good too.)
For me the tools are Vim, Perl, xsltproc, Calibre, kindlegen, git, xmllint and elbow grease. Thank goodness I'm not claiming to have produced a magic button that can produce nineteen formats before breakfast from an input language used by no one. And, for the record, I'd also welcome any further discussion of, or pointers to, tools, techniques and strategies for producing ebooks. As a PG newbie, I've found the "do what you want" attitude to be one of the biggest barriers to entry. I prefer instruction, guidance and examples of best practice. (Another barrier was my own dumb choice of a 700 page two volume work to start on. Ho hum.)