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Formatting help for major re-upload

KimLittle 🚫
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I have finished 'Off The Deep End' and formatted, prepped, and uploaded the ePub to Bookapy where it is awaiting moderation and release.

I have the full version in GoogleDocs and in an ePub out of Sigil. There are also edits to upload to pretty much every chapter. My main issue is that I have italics on a lot of text throughout...

Can anyone tell me the easiest, simplest way to do this? Otherwise the only option I can see is manually pasting replacements for every one of the 32 chapters already on SOL before I can start scheduling the final chapters...

Any ideas?

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Switch Blayde 🚫

@KimLittle

I don't understand. Are you talking about Bookapy or SOL or both?

For Bookapy, simply make the changes in the manuscript (GoogleDocs?) and recreate the epub (Sigil?). Then go into Bookapy and upload the new epub.

For SOL, you have to replace each chapter or replace all the chapters (I recently did the latter with one of my old stories that I revised).

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KimLittle 🚫

@Switch Blayde

I don't understand. Are you talking about Bookapy or SOL or both?

Sorry! Bookapy is easy.

No, this is about updating the existing SOL version to incorporate all the chapter edits and fixes before I post the final chapters.

Thanks for your advice. I will begin the process of cut and paste. ^_^

Replies: Switch Blayde Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster) Marc Nobbs

Switch Blayde 🚫

@KimLittle

I will begin the process of cut and paste.

No need to cut and paste.

Simply break the updated GoogleDocs manuscript into multiple files, one for each chapter. Then save those files as "filtered html." Then upload all the html files to the SOL Wizard.

I assume GoogleDocs has a "save as filtered html" like Word does.

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KimLittle 🚫

@Switch Blayde

Thank you! I ended up just saving the google doc as MS Word, then pasting each chapter into blank doc and saving out as filterd HTML. The first 10 chapters are up (thanks Lazeez!) and it looks fine. ^_^

I've learned my lesson about finishing stuff before posting it. ^_^

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Switch Blayde 🚫

@KimLittle

then pasting each chapter into blank doc and saving out as filterd HTML.

That's what I do.

Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@KimLittle

No, this is about updating the existing SOL version to incorporate all the chapter edits and fixes before I post the final chapters.

It's easiest for you and us if you make a single submission.

Have one file containing everything that needs to be replaced (as long as chapter headers are clear), then submit it as a chapter repost, or story repost.

Since googleDocs generates horrible HTML files (worse than MS Word if it can be believed), save the file in .docx to preserve the italics.

Marc Nobbs 🚫
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@KimLittle

You could use 7zip to unzip the epub file you subbed to Bookapy. epub is just a "zip" wrapper for HTML files and other bits that define the structure.

You should then be able to find a HTML file for each chapter - although it won't be clean as epubs use CSS, so you'll have to strip this out using "find & replace" in something like notepad++.

The good thing about Notepad++ is you can open all the html files at the same time and strip out the CSS from all the files in one go.

You'll still have to manually check the HTML to make sure it's clean, but this is the best method I've found for converting epubs to a format suitable to SOL.

The difficulty you might have is if your italics is defined in the CSS class rather than the HTML, in which case you can still use Find & Replace, but it's just that little bit more complicated.

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