The few eBook formating tools I've posted all share one major flaw. They can only handle a single file as input. This is a problem when you want to run it on all or a number of different eBooks. If you are able to use Bash there is a simple way to run any single … Continue reading Multiple Input with Single Input Apps
Month: December 2008
Building the eBook Tools
It's come to my attention that while I've posted a few eBook formating tools I wrote and use I never posted how to build them. Since I'm using Qt the easiest way to build them is to use qmake and make. The build process is simple. Create a pro file for the project say fix_end_ebook_txt.pro. … Continue reading Building the eBook Tools
eBook Adding Empty Lines At End of File
Continuing my work to clean up my eBooks I've written another little tool to help. I like for my eBooks to have two blank lines at the end of the file. The only major caveat of this one is it assumes Unix end of lines. Meaning a single n character. In order for this to … Continue reading eBook Adding Empty Lines At End of File
eBook Paragraph Formating
Today I wrote two simple programs to help me clean up my ebooks. I prefer to keep my ebook collection as plain text files with paragraphs separated by a blank line. The first program reflows the paragraphs to put each on a single line. The second removes extraneous whitespace from the file. The reflow is … Continue reading eBook Paragraph Formating
json and blogger
Today I decided to learn about json. To help me with this I coded a little python script I call blogger-updates.py. It takes the name of a blogger blog and optionally a number designating the number of entries to reterieve. I used Google's blogger api to get the data. *** Updated to account for non … Continue reading json and blogger
Kittens!
Today Tati and I decided to adopt two cute little kittens. Wally is an orange tabby and he is 2 months old. Cricket is a Persian mix and she is 3 months old. Both love each other and play with one another whenever they aren't sleeping. It's nice having them in the condo. Pictures of … Continue reading Kittens!
WordPress 2.7
WordPress 2.7 is out and all parts of Nach im Wald that use wordpress have been updated.
