{"id":123,"date":"2011-01-29T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T15:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:53:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:53:57","slug":"n_p-ebook-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"N_P Ebook Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapped up the ebook version of <em>Null_Pointer<\/em> this morning. All I need now is the cover art and it&#8217;s done. I can&#8217;t recommend Sigil enough for ebook creation. Once you are finished with your manuscript, put it in one big RTF file and then simply cut and past chapters into Sigil. I created my own style sheet and will use it for all my novels.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I had in the manuscript were comment lines between scene breaks. They look like this \/*&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-*\/ and any programmer can tell you that comment lines are how you hide comments in computer code. I originally had these much longer and when the ebook was viewed on a phone or ereader, it tended to wrap around and look terrible. So I shortened them to ten dashes.<\/p>\n<p>Other lessons learned from my ebook creation include: always make separate pages for each chapter and or section break, like contents or dedication, and make sure you size your cover art to fit on a phone. There, now run along and start making your own ebooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapped up the ebook version of Null_Pointer this morning. All I need now is the cover art and it&#8217;s done. I can&#8217;t recommend Sigil enough for ebook creation. Once you &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-null_pointer","category-programming","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}