Ebook progress
Jan. 27th, 2021 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regshoeHaving got copyright clearance from Project Gutenberg for Sir Isumbras at the Ford when it came into the public domain at the beginning of the year, I've been working on making the required files.
This is being an interesting process so far, getting to grips with the intricacies of text rewrapping (you don't realise how many words are more than ten letters long until you have to format line length to within ten-character limits), line breaks (it turns out different operating systems—invisibly—use different systems for marking line breaks, and my computer was using the wrong one—happily I've now got a text editor that can convert them) and so on. After all that, I now have what looks like a workable text file!
The next step will be putting together the html ebook, which I think will be a challenge—my current knowledge of html is limited to what I've picked up from formatting on Dreamwidth and AO3, and this is a bit more advanced—but hopefully a rewarding one. Anyway, it's certainly interesting seeing the details of the work that goes into making an ebook, as well as getting to know Sir Isumbras very well indeed.
This is being an interesting process so far, getting to grips with the intricacies of text rewrapping (you don't realise how many words are more than ten letters long until you have to format line length to within ten-character limits), line breaks (it turns out different operating systems—invisibly—use different systems for marking line breaks, and my computer was using the wrong one—happily I've now got a text editor that can convert them) and so on. After all that, I now have what looks like a workable text file!
The next step will be putting together the html ebook, which I think will be a challenge—my current knowledge of html is limited to what I've picked up from formatting on Dreamwidth and AO3, and this is a bit more advanced—but hopefully a rewarding one. Anyway, it's certainly interesting seeing the details of the work that goes into making an ebook, as well as getting to know Sir Isumbras very well indeed.
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Date: Jan. 27th, 2021 08:34 pm (UTC)Thanks for the links! I was reading a totally different set of instructions, which I guess were outdated, and seem to have since been removed.
Unlucky me! The text I have for The Wounded Name has an average of four or five end-of-line hyphens per page *grimace*.
It's funny to think that almost a hundred years ago, some typesetter spent hours putting in all those hyphens by hand, not knowing that a century later someone else would spend hours removing them :D In fact, not even dreaming that e-books would someday exist!
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Date: Jan. 28th, 2021 05:08 pm (UTC)Haha, yes—I like to think the historical typesetters would be amused at how the technologies of their craft have changed :D