Re: [NTLK] Makin' books

From: THX 1138 (onefishtwofish_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 14:12:32 EDT


On 01:00 PM 8/23/01 -0500, Daniel Smith quoth:
>I've started work on converting some favorite Gutenberg texts to newtBook,
>it would be a shame if there were some specific problems that made my
>efforts moot.

NewtonPress files corrupt easily, in my experience. If it's a big project,
sort it out in RTF form before dragging it into the unholiness that is
NewtonPress. You will save yourself heartaches this way. Trust me.

I had a huge project die halfway thru without a backup file, and my Newton
Press sources went south. Not a pretty nor elegant failure, I had to
totally start over. Now I take care of major editing (line breaks, page
breaks, spelling, composition, fonts, etc) in WordPerfect, save it as RTF,
import and work out minor issues (topics, more fonts, etc). Works fine on
both Windows and Mac for me.

later,
ben.
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