Comments on: All of #QueryFail March 2009 in HTML

By: Agents and Twitter « Kathleen Peacock

Agents and Twitter « Kathleen Peacock — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:40:22 +0000

[...] those who missed it, a transcript of the day can be downloaded thanks to the Chico Writer’s Group. Still feeling left out? Never fear, a second #queryfail [...]

By: Arachne Jericho

Arachne Jericho — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:53:47 +0000

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.

By: how to build a writer » In Which I Go “WTF?”, or: Agents and Writers - A Twitter Love Story

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:01:24 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Spontaneous Derivation has kindly posted various formats of all of #queryfail in one easy-to-download package. Check it out here. [...]

By: auria cortes

auria cortes — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:37:29 +0000

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.

By: MacAllister

MacAllister — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:12:16 +0000

w00t! I am soooo linking to this. Thanks, AJ.

By: Diana Peterfreund Blog | Don’t Be Desperate Redux

Diana Peterfreund Blog | Don’t Be Desperate Redux — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:56:59 +0000

[...] missed the whole QueryFail brouhaha while in Ireland. But after reading the actual twitter posts (I refuse to say “tweet,” what is that nonsense?) as well as some commentary on the [...]

By: Arachne Jericho

Arachne Jericho — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:18:55 +0000

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.

By: maantren

maantren — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:07:18 +0000

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

By: Raw #queryfail capture « Chico Writer’s Group

Raw #queryfail capture « Chico Writer’s Group — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:06:02 +0000

[...] to download (available only in rich text format). *update: also you can download an HTML file [here]. [...]