All of #QueryFail March 2009 in HTML

From the Chico Writer’s Group: original source in RTF.

After much regular expression and ruby scripting fun, I present to you an HTML version, complete with hyperlinks, and in order from oldest to newest. It’s very, very long, so I zipped up the file.

ETA: And now in other formats!
ETA #2: Corrected PDF link.

Query Fail Downloads

Have fun!

9 thoughts on “All of #QueryFail March 2009 in HTML”

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  2. That’s fantastic! Forgive the newb question but how do you generate the different reader formats? Is it using Ruby scripts as well?

    Cheers

    Colin

  3. Simple, maantren – I stand on the shoulders of giants. ;)

    – Ruby-Epub tools is something I created myself (and need to add more to) and is the base of my work

    – Ruby scripts and vim regular expressions applied heavily to split and massage the source text

    – HTML tidy used to make the HTML valid enough to pass epubcheck and create valid Epub files

    – More massaging via ruby scripts

    – After the Epub file is created via Ruby Epub tools, mobigen from Mobipocket people creates the Kindle/Mobipocket file

    – calibre’s any2lrf run on the mobipocket file creates the Sony Reader file

    – calibre’s oeb2lit run on the OPF file generated by Ruby Epub tools creates the Microsoft Reader file

    – html2ps run on the HTML files creates a Postscript file you don’t see —

    – because ps2pdf is run on it to create the PDF.

    It’s a series of tubes! And the best part is that I can automate it so that a mistake correction (which always happens) can be replicated throughout all formats in less than five minutes. Most of that time is spent loading a Windows emulator on my Mac, actually.

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  6. Thanks! I wondered what all the fuss is about. There was so much hype. Some people saying the tweets were so mean. Others saying the tweets were so funny. I found the thread extremely boring (couldn’t finish reading the whole thing). Maybe my expectation was too high. ((shrugs))

    Anyway, thanks for sharing because I’m no longer out of the loop.

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  8. Hi Mac, thanks for the link!

    Hi Auria, the fun more or less starts on page 8 of the PDF. It runs some 70 pages from there.

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