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jiml2
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 Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:09 pm Post subject: Title and author issue |
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After editing another author's document I save it as an html file preparing to convert it to an eBook in Calibre. But in the html file the title is set to "Default" and my name appears as the author.
I know I can go through File -> Properties -> Description and change the title. But I'm doing dozens of these and don't want all that manual manipulation. I want to go farther back and do whatever is necessary to keep these from getting set up (sent to those places from somewhere else) in the first place.
I might be able to just remove my own name from the Properties and solve the author problem. But _something_ would still be naming the file as "Default" instead of the actual name of the file.
How can I fix this?
Someone on the Calibre forum said something about Writer getting these data from "metadata" and that I have set Writer to do just that. I won't swear I haven't, but I don't know how I would have without knowing how.
There have been some instances when the title went into the hmtl properly, but it still listed me as the author. And Calibre stores everything under author names/folders. How can I configure this properly? So that the title comes from the file name and author at least remains blank?
Jim
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The default behaviour of word processors seems to be that the editor of a file is considered as the author, that is to say, it's not a great tool for editors of other people's work if they want to use the inbuilt meta data. We also don't recommend converting to the HTML format (because OOo's support for HTML is quite poor), but XHTML would be fine. You may have better results with a Writer to Epub extension/tool.
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| floris_v wrote: | | The default behaviour of word processors seems to be that the editor of a file is considered as the author, that is to say, it's not a great tool for editors of other people's work if they want to use the inbuilt meta data. We also don't recommend converting to the HTML format (because OOo's support for HTML is quite poor), but XHTML would be fine. You may have better results with a Writer to Epub extension/tool. |
Thanks.
1. Are you saying that once more we find programming that gives users no way to select their own choice of options? That the default cannot be altered?
2. Writer has no XHTML setting, right? At least when I search for XHTML, Helps brings up hits for XML. Programming engineers in the 21st century can't grasp that those are ... uh ... different?
Not your fault of course.
I've used W2E. Don't remember what happened there. I'll try it again.
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I suddenly remember that support of xhtml has been dropped in Apache OpenOffice but it's still available in LibreOffice 3.5 under File - Export.
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| floris_v wrote: | | I suddenly remember that support of xhtml has been dropped in Apache OpenOffice but it's still available in LibreOffice 3.5 under File - Export. |
I wonder if they've completely dropped it or if they want to recode it from scratch. Just dropping it is not exactly a good sign of progress.
When I was programming we wrote code. I don't care much for dozens of libraries to pick from to do the coding for you.
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