2010
05.22

If things look a little wonky…

Category: Fanfic / Tag:  / 3 comments

over in the ‘fic’ section, I’m experimenting with the stylesheet I use to format the stories. This is part of the effort to turn all of the finished fics into ePub formatted ebooks.

I’m using the following method:

  1. Download the story from TtH in ePub format (saves me a few minutes in creating the ePub file) (So only finished stories/chapters)
  2. Make changes to the story txt (I don’t really have to, iBooks (on my iPad) seems to deal with the straight conversion okay. But I want it to look “better”. — Basically, replace the body of the story chapters with the formatted version here. Not instant since I have to make it all XHTML compliant (and it isn’t right now.)

I’m using Sigil for this. It lets you actually edit an epub file without having to ‘take it apart’ to get to things (an epub file is a zip file with contents in a specific format/organization.). It isn’t perfect but for a beta it does very well (and is available on Windows, OS X, and Linux)