Writing books in OneNote

#on/writing

• We use a section for a book writing and exporting.
  • It doesn't take the entire notebook.
  • So that we can still use the other sections to gather material before we put them into the manuscript.
• We use parent pages and sub-pages for parts in a book.
• Each page or sub-page is a chapter.
• Exporting by using the built-in section exporting feature.
  • Exporting the section into single-page HTML file
  • Which is indeed an .mht file, that IE can open it properly
  • And then save the file as HTML from IE.
  • By having the HTML, we can then use Python and BeautifulSoup to process the HTML element tree into whatever format we want.
• Post-Processing
  • The post-process procedure processes the following:
  • Margin lines between pages and sub-pages
    • We can distinguish parent page and sub-pages by counting the margin lines.
    • There are 2 for sub-pages and 3 before a new parent page.
  • Images
    • The images are in .tmp format
    • Which requires further extension conversion.
  • Code blocks
    • The code block is not any code blocks in the output HTML.
    • They are inside a nested table element
    • Need to detect these code blocks and apart from the images, which are also inside a table element.
  • The target is to process the exported HTML into markdown that LeanPub can read
    • To create a flow from writing in OneNote to publishing on LeanPub.