ePub creation tools : what's missing ? wishlist / dialogue - Page 8

Quoth · 09-24-2022, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by SofiOlguin

If we have a well-styled docx, Word2Epub will give us a good result.

Calibre and Sigil are better. Also the ePub export in current LO Writer or plug-in for earlier LO Writer (or OO Writer) is poorer than extra Save As in docx and convert in Calibre.

The Sigil or Calibre edit of CSS will allow fine tune of image sizes (such as fixed, or auto one axis with % of container (which might be screen) on the other access.

You are right that the styles / formatting need to be right. Do formatting / styles from proofed epub in a copy of the final Word/Writer document for PDF export. The same styles & format don't suit both.

salmobytes · 03-28-2023, 06:23 PM

I develop in HTML and then convert directly to epub with ebooklib from github.

From a series of home-rolled bash and python scripts I can generate a hierarchical TOC. The output I get validates with epubcheck, if and only if I do not try to include SVG files and/or any (possibly) externally-hosted audio of video.

I can do those things, in ways most but not all readers work with. But epubcheck does barf on the codes I write (only for external video). What I do does require programming skills. But that does demonstrate it could someday be done for a wider audience.

HTML is easily transformed into Microsoft Word format too, using pandoc. Word does seem to be the format editors want. The only time I ever use Word is for corresponding with prospective editors.

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salmobytes Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2022 Location: ••••••• Device: pixel3xl	I develop in HTML and then convert directly to epub with ebooklib from github. From a series of home-rolled bash and python scripts I can generate a hierarchical TOC. The output I get validates with epubcheck, if and only if I do not try to include SVG files and/or any (possibly) externally-hosted audio of video. I can do those things, in ways most but not all readers work with. But epubcheck does barf on the codes I write (only for external video). What I do does require programming skills. But that does demonstrate it could someday be done for a wider audience. HTML is easily transformed into Microsoft Word format too, using pandoc. Word does seem to be the format editors want. The only time I ever use Word is for corresponding with prospective editors.