Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Why American History Is Not As They Say by Jeff Riggenbach

Status: Accepted on Mises (10.28.12)

My Typo Fixed EPUB (Mises.org): https://www.mises.org/document/6995/Why-American-History-Is-Not-What-They-Say

User Submitted EPUB (if wanted for comparison)

Original EPUB (Junk Calibre Conversion)
Original PDF

Fix Notes:


This EPUB was submitted by a user to the Mises Institute. The user cleaned the original EPUB by stripping out all/most of the calibre conversion, and fixed:

- TOC
- Formatting (LOOKS VASTLY SUPERIOR)
- Footnotes
- File Structure

I went ahead and took the cleaned version and fixed hundreds of typos (mostly hyphenation issues). Here is my typo fixes from the original/fixed EPUB.

Hyphenation Errors:


2 John Dos Pas-sos

2 Germa-ny

Roth-bard

oth-ers

Epis-temology

nonfic-tion

Stim-son

forth-rightly

Vid-al

Heca-taeus

Tuck-er

invad-ers

an-archo-communists

stat-ism

Strom-berg

DiLoren-zo

histo-riographical

mega-lomaniacal

libertarian-ism

col-lege

psycho-epistemo-logical

signifi-cant

Hit-lerism

de-pradations

[r]eform-ers

crystal-ised

rea-sons

Sch-weikart

effec-tively

develop-ment

Mil-lis

sa-credness

ibertar-ianism

Apple-man

unalien-able

Hard-ing


Spacing Errors:


36 accidental around '—'

52 non-spaced "[...]"

12 spaces before footnotes


2 J ohn

J ohnathan

2 J ames

j ournalism

[v] iewed

J ohnson

J efferson

McCor-mick

r evisionist

"blue/ grey"


Wrong Italics:


15 parenthesis

189 commas

79 periods

22 quotation marks

3 books improperly italic

3 Accidental links


1 Accidental '^'


Missing punctuation:


Right before footnote 168

"Levellers of the English Civil War (16421647)"

"story of Henri de Saint-Simon (17601825)"

"Reagan's eight years (19661974)"

"Charles Austin Beard (18741948)"


Added accents:


ancien régime

naïve -> naïve


Missing blockquote:


Around Footnote 276

Beginning of Section 5 Chapter VI


Footnote Fixes:


Footnote 12 was missing "1956), p.74."

Footnote 28 link fixed

Footnote 52 link fixed

Footnote 116 had "I99o), p. i8." -> "1990), p. 18."

Footnote 141 link fixed

Footnote 238 "[yaf and SDs]" -> "[YAF and SDS]

Footnote 286 link fixed

Footnote 327 "A. of Leviathan" -> "A New History of Leviathan"

Footnote 335 Superscript problems, and some typos

Footnote 363 link fixed

Footnote 376 link fixed

Footnote 378 link fixed


TOC Fix:


First link to Chapter 3 was broken. Changed "chap1" to "chap3"


Changed to Life of Washington."

- [...] favorite reading was Parson Weems' Life of Washington!


Godkin's Nation"

- [...] Godkin's Nation' [...]


Changed to "UCV"

- United Confederate Veterans (ucv)

3 comments:

  1. I also use Calibre. How is it possible to clean up the conversions?

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    1. In order to clean up Calibre bloat, I would recommend having a basic knowledge of HTML+CSS, and Regular Expressions (not needed but helps A TON).

      I stay away from Calibre as much as possible, as it should only be used when doing conversions for your own personal usage. It creates very bloated code.

      I personally use Sigil for all my EPUB creating/editing, and for "non-destructive" editing I just use Notepad++ (or any text editor with Regular Expression support).

      Every book that calibre converts will be slightly different, but if you take a look at the Calibre generated stylesheet, you will see Calibre inserting tens (sometimes hundreds) of different "calibre###" classes. Where all of them basically do the same exact thing.

      calibre1 will have a "text-indent: 1.2em"
      calibre2 will have a "text-indent: 1.22em"
      calibre3 will have a "text-indent: 1.23em"
      ...
      calibre99 will have a "text-indent:1.1589em"

      calibre123 will have a "margin-top: 1em"
      calibre124 will have a "margin-top: 1.01em"
      ...

      So I just use a regular expression to remove all classes of calibre1 -> calibre99, and have my generic stylesheet have a p with "text-indent:1.2em". Then just go through the book/stylesheet to figure out what every calibre class does, and remove it from the actual book.

      This cuts down the amount of classes used in the book from hundreds down to a handful.

      I should definitely do an in depth post on this topic, and also an in depth post on my typical workflow.

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  2. That explains a lot. Thank you very much!

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