{"id":2861,"date":"2010-10-14T18:07:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T01:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2010-10-14T21:02:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T04:02:49","slug":"this-is-how-i-get-it-done-making-a-quick-ebook-with-jutoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/this-is-how-i-get-it-done-making-a-quick-ebook-with-jutoh\/","title":{"rendered":"This is How I Get It Done: Making a quick ebook with Jutoh"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one’s going to be short, because I’ve kind of been looking at this screen all day.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, I asked if anyone would be interested in getting all of my NaNoWriMo advice posts pulled together into some kind of epub format.<\/p>\n

The answer was “yes.”<\/p>\n

I kind of ignored that for a bit, because frankly I didn’t know where to start with creating something like that, beyond a PDF; all the stuff I used a few years ago is abandonware.<\/p>\n

But today someone sent me an ebook they’d ‘just slapped together’ in eCub, so I went and looked at that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It seemed fine, but I did notice this bit:<\/p>\n

eCub does\u00a0not<\/em> do WYSIWYG or syntax-highlighted editing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmm. I may be reading that wrong, but it sounds like it doesn’t do something like “highlight that word and hit ctrl-I for italics.” So… may a little simpler than I wanted.<\/p>\n

But then I read:<\/p>\n

You may like to consider the Jutoh ebook editor<\/a> for easier, WYSIWYG editing, more sophisticated import, and greater configurability. Jutoh also handles footnotes, index entries and other aspects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that certainly seemed a lot closer to what I was looking for.<\/p>\n

So I grabbed it, installed it, and got to work. First, I saved copies of all the individual posts as html files, then I pointed Jutoh at that directory full of a mess of html files, images, links, and… you know, stuff, and said “Do something with that, wouldja?”<\/p>\n

Here is the result — This is How I Get It Done – Daily Kicks in the Ass for NaNoWriMo Authors<\/em>, in:<\/p>\n