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Converting from InDesign to the Electric Book workflow

Suggested steps

This is what we do when we convert one of our Bettercare textbooks from a traditional InDesign workflow to markdown for this workflow. You'll probably develop your own process for turning existing books into markdown. Maybe this will help.

1. Open the InDesign file and copy all the text.
2. Paste the text with formatting into your text editor.
3. Search and replace (S&R) all line breaks with double line breaks:
   • Tick 'Regular expression' (because you're using the regex \n to mean 'line break', not actually searching for the characters 'slash' and 'lowercase en').

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/* Page setup for Lightning Source colour pages
 * --------------------------------------------
 *
 * Removes bleed on inside edges
 * Adjusts trim accordingly
 * Removes crop marks as required by LS
 * Uses the @left and @right margin boxes to obscure elements (e.g. full-bleed images)
 * that otherwise bleed into the margin area.
 * YMMV
 *

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@echo off

:: This batch file copies a file called 'file.txt'
:: from a subfolder called 'sourcefolder'
:: to all subfolders called 'text'.

:: Get current directory
set dir=%~dp0
:: Loop and copy file
for /d /r %dir% %%d in (.) do (

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// ==UserScript==
// @name     Avoid social media
// @version  1
// @grant    none
// @include   *://facebook.com*
// @include   *://*.facebook.com*
// @include   *://twitter.com*
// @include   *://*.twitter.com*
// @run-at  document-start
// ==/UserScript==

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:: Don't show these commands to the user
@echo off
:: Keep variables local, and expand at execution time not parse time
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
:: Set the title of the window
title Validating epubs

:begin
    echo This will run EpubCheck on all the epubs in this folder.
    pause

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layout
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Deploying this build to a live server

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# Send www to non-www (thanks http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234723/generic-htaccess-redirect-www-to-non-www)
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

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Sub WordcountAll()
  '  Add the path to the folder you are counting below in quotes where you see C:\
  '  Adapted from https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/2-quick-ways-count-total-number-pages-words-multiple-word-documents/
  Dim objWordApplication As Word.Application
  Dim nPageNumber As Long
  Dim nWordNumber As Long
  Dim objFile As Variant
  Dim objFileSystem As Object
  Dim objFolders As Object

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Updating your PATH in Terminal (OSX)

Background

When you ask your computer to run a program, it needs to be able to find the program's executable files. The PATH is its 'official' list of places to look.

You can have Terminal add locations to your PATH each time you open it. To set this up, you need to create a 'bash profile' ('bash' being the language that Terminal runs in), which Terminal will read each time it launches. The bash profile can list locations that Terminal adds temporarily to the computer's PATH.

These steps show how to do that, in particular for adding Ruby to your PATH after installing it with Homebrew.