boy, it's a good thing branko provoked a confrontation with me by _editing_ my comments over on the teleblog a while back, which led me to abandon that hell-hole. because he's doing a series about how to transform p.g. e-texts into e-books. his tack is to create an .html version (if necessary) which then gets imported into office, which then creates a .pdf... man, you do all that work, and then you end up with a _pdf_? oh geez. oh please. if i was still over there on the teleblah-blah blog, i would be raking this series over the coals, that's for sure. i'm sure glad that i have much better things to do with my time these days... -bowerbird
Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
his tack is to create an .html version (if necessary) which then gets imported into office, which then creates a .pdf...
man, you do all that work, and then you end up with a _pdf_?
I know your bent is to prefer a non-standard lightweight markup for texts, but for those of us considering adding full-on markup, what's the simplest way to handle this? The idea of grovelling through the text in vi and adding tags all over doesn't appeal. I kind-of would have thought importing to an HTML editor, like Dreamweaver or something, and then applying CSS styles and basic text styles to things, then exporting as XHTML would be a good start. ============================================================ Gardner Buchanan <gbuchana@teksavvy.com> Ottawa, ON FreeBSD: Where you want to go. Today.
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