I fully agree. I use outline level styles all the time, and they make a world of difference, especially when used in headings. They make jumping from one heading to the next actually work on my Kindle. Virgil
Along those same lines -- when you convert in Calibre -- the ONLY thing that matters (as far as chapters are concerned) is the style you use for said chapter headings. I always use H3 and then make sure to catch this in the Structure Detection section of the conversion window. With this you can define some nice things (such as page breaks).
--- From: Fernand Vanrie Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 3:22 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer Virgil , the secret of styles for ebook publishing is the "OutLineLevel" you can uses any style but change your paragraph styles to the correct OutlineLevel TITEL = OutlineLevel 1 Subtitel = OutlineLevel 2 Subsubtitel = OutlineLevel 3 etc...to 9Wolfgang, I don't believe I've heard of "structure markup style concept" and I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I used WordPerfect for years and could never quite get the hang of WP's styles, all the while I took to Word's and OO's (now LO's) styles quite easily. When I used WP, everything was very typewriter-like, with commands being inserted in a linear fashion until they were changed by a later command. Hence the reason <reveal codes> was so essential with WP. Virgil -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Keller Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:17 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with WriterFor example, several years ago, my 14 year old son challenged himself to type a 50,000 word novel in November, which is National Novel Writers Month. He met his goal, and quickly dropped the project. As a proud papa, I wanted to put his document to paper. He wrote the original in WordPerfect, and it was a formatting mess, with stray tabs, carriage returns, and inconsistent formatting across chapter and section headings. I began the task of reformatting his 127 page novel using WordPerfect, the original program. It didn't take long for me to realize it would take days and days to wade through all of the formatting codes inserted by WP.I have to say that unlike MS Word and its clones OO and LO, Wordperfect *does* allow proper use of styles for "structure markup". Among the dozens of different document processing applications I have used over the past 25 years, Wordperfect was one of the best for authoring strongly structured documents, at par with Framemaker. Unfortunately it fell into the hands of an incompentent company (at Corel). Obivously, nothing (besides Indesign with a *competent* typographer in front of it) beats the typographic output of LyX/LaTeX, so if you want to produce a PDF ready for print, there's no other choice. I even use it for letters. Until they get redesigned to implement a proper "structure markup" style concept and correct typographic features (all line- and page-breaking algorithms from LaTeX are open-source), LO and OO have their value mostly for "generating" documents from databases. Sincerely, Wolfgang-- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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