I don't know what his problem is with Newton Press, but I was looking at the
Intertext web pages and noticed something.
If they (Intertext) would be willing to make 2 changes to the html code of
each story, it would be Newt's Cape ready. I could then make a newton
package. It would take approximately 10 minutes of work, and maybe 30
minutes of processing.
The changes that would be necessary are:
1. Add the following line to the head section of each story.
<META NAME="ISBN" CONTENT="filename.html">
2. Format the title within the text of the story as H1 instead of using
FONT.
Then, with the creation of a 20 line html file to include the stories into 1
book, I could make the book easily.
Think they would go for it?
Loren
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>From: "John I. Clark" <jiclark@independence.net>
>To: NewtonTalk list <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
>Subject: NTLK Newton Press problems...
>Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2000, 12:57 AM
>
> Greetings...
>
> I'm writing to try and help the good folks at InterText.com (online
> fiction) figure out their problem translating their 'zine to a Newton
> Book. Some of you may have seen it.
>
> Well, a gentleman named Peter Jones <Peter.Jones@comsat.com> has been
> voluntarily doing the translating for the last couple of years, until
> now anyway. I'll let him explain the problem:
>
>> Starting with ITv9n6, Newton Press stopped being able to import data.
>> Don't know why, frankly, and it has me stumped. I've worked all the
>> options and changes which I thought could be the problem but to no
> avail.
>>
>> Routinely, I take the ASCII text version of InterText which Jason
> sends
>> me, and import it into MS-Word. I then reformat into the appropriate
>> typeface and fonts, remove extraneous carriage returns, add bolds and
>> underlines as appropriate, and save as Word 6.0/95 format. Then I
> import
>> this into Newton Press, make the Table of Contents, add a few page
> breaks
>> and check for overall appearance, and *bang* we're done! Whole
> process,
>> depending on how many times my wife interrupts, takes about 2 hours.
>>
>> But starting with this last issue, I can't get it to work at all. NP
>> chokes and pukes and will not accept the Word text, and quits.
>>
>> I've used this same process for several years (with the exception of
>> upgrading from Word 4.2.1 to Word 98) and it works fine every time. To
>
>> summarize what I've tried:
>>
>> o Loaded NP on two other Macs, tried again...same.
>> o Tried to load issue as ASCII text...same.
>> o Typed in a few paragraphs ... worked fine, but I don't have
> the
>> patience for that.
>> o Saved issue as older version of Word (5.1) for Mac, tried
>> again...same.
>>
>> I have no doubt that something is screwing up the process, but I don't
>
>> know what.
>
> So, if anyone has any ideas, drop him (or me) a note. I mentioned to him
> that there are other options out there, other than NewtonPress. [I'm the
> guy that was asking about the various versions of Newton Books last
> week... I've downloaded Paperback and Newton Book Maker; I just haven't
> had time to get myself some experience with any of them, and I don't
> have a modem so I don't even have Newts Cape or the new plug-in to
> translate Palm books. It sounds like that might be the best avenue...]
> Let us know your thoughts!
>
> As always, your help is much appreciated!
>
> Thanks, John
>
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