I worked on two screens: the original Word document open on one and the Jutoh project on the other. The formatting and copy/pasting was simple, if tedious to the nth degree. That latter choice seems odd, but it was a monospace paragraph style and it caught my eye, and so I used it instead of creating my own. I decided to use the Body Text style for the main text, the various Heading N styles for the four levels of heading I had, the Caption style for figure, table, and listing captions, and HTML style for the code listings. My plan of attack was to firstly define the look I wanted by editing the stylesheet, and then to go through the entire manuscript setting paragraph styles, required italics in the text, and replacing every single code listing (this was the major problem with the mechanical EPUB conversion: indents in the code were completely lost). I imported the EPUB file that Lulu had created so that I had somewhere to start and then investigated the job that needed doing. This program is just for writing books for e-publishing and works pretty well from my viewpoint, although I did find several user experience problems (I’ll talk about them in a future post). So switching back to a word processor that didn’t support them was way too much of a culture shock. The original manuscript for the book (which I started in 1999, although it was only published in June 2001) used styles heavily.
The main issue I had with Scrivener is that it didn’t have stylesheet support, and I’ve used (and grown used to) styles in Word for some 15 years or more. Having tried to use Scrivener (for Windows, not the Mac version), I abandoned it for Jutoh, based on a recommendation from Jeff Duntemann.
So, over the past 10 days (not continuously, I hasten to add), I’ve been recreating it.
Setting kindle start page in jutoh pdf#
And that, since the ebook was mostly created from a mechanical process converting my PDF for the physical book, it was pretty grim formatting-wise. As I mentioned a week or so ago, I discovered that my book, The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures, was out as an ebook.
0 kommentar(er)
