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I have to agree. I have Gnu Emacs here, but the only use I made of elisp was years back, learning enough to hack my .emacsrc to properly support the various special keys on the machine I was running it on. I've had no cause to touch it since. ______ Dennis |
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Here's a tip: When spidering, the main rule for me is to not let HTTRack veer off to some domain/address that itself, on the whole, is unnecessary. If I need just one or two pages from that website location, I may just manually download them or do another mini "spider" to get the section relevant to the main spidering and then merge that directory within the original spidered local directory. Quote:
I create and test the ebook for such things as improperly formed hyperlinks, removal of headers/footer if unnecessary, creation of a cover page, reordering of .html if necessary, etc. To correct certain deficiencies (change html code) within many .html files, at once, I use the shareware TextPad text editor (www.textpad.com) and perform reg-ex search and replace over all files, at the same time. I did try to use Sigil to create the .opf and actually did use it's content.opf to get my ebook creation started, but the .epub created by Sigil lost some of the hyperlinks (due to a "bug" perhaps) where a hyperlink was referenced with an external filename before the #reference. I did use it's Metadata Editor and TOC Editor before going the calibre route with the content.opf as input. I accomplish the .epub build using calibre's command line tool, ebook-convert, using a simple .bat file whose contents I manually edit for each different build, namely: Code:
ebook-convert "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.opf" "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.epub" --no-default-epub-cover --title "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" --authors "Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman" --publisher="NR (nrapallo)" --dont-split-on-page-breaks --no-chapters-in-toc --chapter "//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']" --chapter-mark=none --output-profile=sony pause At this point, I call it a day and try out the ebook on a reading device and peruse it. Because I'm a bit of a perfectionist, I'll try to fix glaring "faux pas", ensure all images appear properly and try most of the hyperlinks to ensure they jump properly. Then I'll recreate that ebook until I'm satisfied... I hope this gives you some insights into what for me has increased my enjoyment of (huge) ebooks, that is the spidering of meticulously fine-crafted website books and converting them into ebooks! It's all about content, content, content.... |
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10-09-2010, 10:38 AM | #18 |
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Thank you for the comments. There have been several requests for book recipes, and I think they have a place in Calibre, but they don't really fit into the normal recipe system where Kovid stores them centrally. I'd suggest anyone who wants to write a one-shot recipe for books should put them here. Also wget files or HTTrack command files/batch files and the like that have been configured to pull a book should be welcome here.
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