Comments for His Deeds Are Dust

Comment on No, Kindle Previewer, you may not auto update by yoink

yoink — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:07:59 +0000

Hi,

Try this instead:

[code]
chmod 777 autoupdate.jar # to stop the error message if you've already run with chmod 0
touch update.jar_tmp # if it doesn't already exist
chmod 0 update.jar_tmp # to stop it downloading to this file
[/code]

You get no error message then. HTH.

Comment on That well-known Unicode character, Zero Width Non Joiner Freaky Repeater by Paul Flo Williams

Paul Flo Williams — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:23:01 +0000

@Charles
See the previous post: http://hisdeedsaredust.com/2012/01/taming-em-dashes-on-the-kindle/

Comment on That well-known Unicode character, Zero Width Non Joiner Freaky Repeater by Charles

Charles — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:30:46 +0000

Paul – what is a ZWNJ? Why would I use it?

Comment on Taming em dashes on the Kindle by Update About That Pesky em-Dash in Ebooks Problem | J W Manus

Update About That Pesky em-Dash in Ebooks Problem | J W Manus — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:15:41 +0000

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Comment on Taming em dashes on the Kindle by Jaye

Jaye — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:24:24 +0000

Howdy. I’m so glad I’m not the only one who’s driven batty by formatting issues in ebooks. Such nit-picky details, but the details matter.

I come from a non-techie perspective (at best, a bumbling, rather clueless semi-techie who knows just enough to really make a mess of things). When I see an issue, I tend to fumble around and come up solutions that sort of, kind of work. Mostly I look around for people who’ve come up with REAL solutions. I believe you have come up with a solution to the em-dash problem, but the tech talk goes right over my head.

Do you perchance have a title to recommend that shows how you solved the problem? I have a Kindle. A link to Amazon would be great. That way I can do a blog post about it, then link back to this post so my readers who struggle with the issue can see there is a solution. If, like me, they are non-techies, they can either consult with you or hire you to fix the issue. It would be much appreciated.