This oversized article explains how to adapt a plain text book, perhaps from Gutenberg, into a well-designed EPUB file, using InDesign and GREP. It shows how to remove extra lines breaks and spaces, and how to convert plain text formatting like underscores and carats into their modern-day counterparts, italic and small caps . It was originally written as part of EPUB Straight to the Point, but was omitted for brevity's sake.
This oversized article explains how to adapt a plain text book, perhaps from Gutenberg, into a well-designed EPUB file, using InDesign and GREP. It shows how to remove extra lines breaks and spaces, and how to convert plain text formatting like underscores and carats into their modern-day counterparts, italic and small caps . It was originally written as part of EPUB Straight to the Point, but was omitted for brevity's sake.