Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

Hi :)
That sounds a lot like LaTeX being best if you stick with their defaults so it kinda makes sense to 
me.  I think the Docs Team (i think mostly Dan & Jean wasn't it?) experimented with a few ways of 
getting ePubs from the guides and they might have useful ideas about it even though it's years 
later already.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>; e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> 
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 19:22
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
>
>
> I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried converting 
> the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then tried 
> doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same result. No EPUB 
> output file was generated.
>
> I noticed that Writer2epub doesn't like custom styles. It is apparently 
> designed for fairly simple documents, using LO's built-in styles. It can't 
> handle the elaborate formatting of the LO User Guides.
>
> I then tried it using a theology paper I wrote a few years ago. I have 
> several outline numbered styles, which again, Writer2epub doesn't translate 
> well.
>
> I think Writer2epub will work best with a document that is designed from the 
> beginning for EPUB, but if you want to translate an existing document, you 
> may need to do considerable work to make it ready for the extension.
>
> These are just my observations after a half-hour experiment.
>
> Virgil
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Tom Davies
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:46 AM
> To: Virgil Arrington ; e-letter
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
>
> Hi :)
> Sorry, got distracted.  Here's a link
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
> > ________________________________
> > From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> > To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>; e-letter <inpost@gmail.com>
> > Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 14:11
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> > Do you have a link to one of the guides? I may have a go at trying 
> > different
> > ways of converting one to EPUB just to see how it works. Might be kind of
> > fun.
> >
> > Virgil
> >
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Tom Davies
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 8:31 AM
> > To: e-letter ; Virgil Arrington
> > Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >
> > Hi :)
> > Has anyone successfully tried this to get ePub versions of something fairly
> > hefty such as our Published Guides?  I think it would be great if we could
> > get all those guides done as ePub wouldn't it?  Anyone able to give it a 
> > go?
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: e-letter <inpost@gmail.com>
> > > To: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> > > Cc: rost52 <bugquestcontri@online.de>; users@global.libreoffice.org
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 12:56
> > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12/07/2013, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > That works just fine. For my tastes, however, it's not quite as smooth a
> > > > process or polished a result as with LyX/LaTeX.
> > >
> > > Agree, for PDF, but it seems that the future of viewing content is in
> > > digital format via mobile devices. So for archiving to paper, LaTeX
> > > wins and maybe epub for electronic archives.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: rost52
> > > > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:00 PM
> > > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> > > >
> > > > "As a proud papa..." I would open the document in Writer, select all and
> > > > set
> > > >
> > > > styles to Default. Then
> > > > create the styles I wanted and reformat the whole document.
> > >
> > > By coincidence there has been a guide published to write epub
> > > documents using LO:
> > > http://opensource.com/life/13/8/how-create-ebook-open-source-way
> > >
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