Yesterday, 08:21 AM | #16 |
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The one book I've edited with a Vellum CSS was the most ridiculously complex CSS I've ever seen. How anyone thought that was a sensible way to proceed is beyond me. They could have gotten the same appearance with a much simpler CSS.
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Vellum's market is mostly indie authors who write their document in Word or other program generating .docx output and then feed the .docx file into Vellum to generate various flavours of ePub output (ePub2/ePub3, Apple, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, Google, generic) with an option for mobi for local testing on Kindle ereaders/apps. For non-ebook uses, you can generate an print ready output file. As a group, the authors that I have dealt with are more concerned with generating output that will work without requiring them to know about stylesheets, ebook structure, etc. They do care about not generating masses of complaints. |
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Yesterday, 07:05 PM | #19 |
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For me, I have a collection of saved searches in Sigil that clean up most of the cascaded divs. They also remove almost all of the media queries from the media stylesheet since they are not needed for most ePub ebooks and clean up a good chunk of the unneeded bits in the styles stylesheet. I also dump dropcaps in this process and convert the ornamental breaks to a single <p>
The workflow is:
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Yesterday, 07:16 PM | #20 |
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Not a trivial number of changes. If I run into another Vellum monstrosity I may bother you for a copy of your saved searches and automations, if that's not a problem.
Dropcaps should be dropped. I don't mind "* * *" breaks or something equally inoffensive. |
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For my own adjustment, I have taken some PDFs from Open Library and have converted them to ePubs. Having done this, I've generated my own stylesheet. Considering I'm self taught, I think I've done pretty well.
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Yesterday, 11:19 PM | #22 |
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Maybe we need a "share your e-book cleanup scripts" thread of some kind.
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