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Bob, since you've converted so many txt files to epub, I think folcs on this thread would be interested in how exactly you did that.
regards
I don't have any magic. I use the Stanza desktop application on my Windows PC.
If I want a quick-and-dirty conversion, I load the txt file and do a Save As to save in epub foramt exactly as Lynn describes above.
If I want a
clean conversion, I do this:
1. Load the txt file into MS Word
2. Use a technique almost exactly as Bethy describes to remove the hard-returns. Any yes, you need to be ready to handle the soft-return variant. It's just a different search but once you find the character it works perfectly every time. (And my experience in figuring this out was very similar to Bethy's.)
3. Then I have one more trick. For each section, add the word "Chapter x" to open each section. Then save the whole thing as MS Word format. (The is partly why I started using the word "Chapter" in my longer stories. It saves ME a step
)
4. Then load the .doc into the Stanza desktop app. About 2/3 of the time Stanza will see the "Chapter" key words and create the chapter breakpoints. I don't know why it doesn't work all the time. I haven't tracked that down yet.
If someone knows the magic for this part, I'd love to know.
Then Save As the epub. If Stanza recognized the chapter breaks, you will have a properly formatted, chapterized epub version.
Yes, this takes a little time but once you've done it a few times, it's pretty quick. I'd say less than 10 minutes for most files. The hard part is breaking into chapters if there isn't a good substitution word.
Bob
