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

There is a version for AOO, several actually written by a guy with an 
Italian country code.

One for version if for 3.x, another for 4.0, and a new Beta one.

So you may need to look into which one you are using for which version 
of LO or AOO.

I found this out by Googling "odf to epub converter"


On 08/13/2013 04:15 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> Another thing I noticed about the writer2epub extension. When I first 
> downloaded it, it would not properly install into my LO 3.6.7. I then 
> uninstalled my AOO 3.4.1 and AOO 4.0. The writer2epub extension then 
> installed into LO.
>
> It appears (as others have alluded) that LO and AOO have some 
> conflicts when installed side by side on the same machine (registry 
> perhaps which is beyond my knowledge). Since I'm finding that LO is 
> progressing better than AOO, I'm happy to commit to just one of the 
> suites.
>
> Virgil
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Virgil Arrington
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:58 PM
> To: Tom Davies
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
>
> I just redid the Writer2epub test with my theology paper after applying
> default LO styles. It worked a *lot* better. I really liked the way it
> handled the default "Text Body" style by not indenting the first 
> paragraph
> after a heading and then indenting subsequent paragraphs. That is 
> excellent
> typography (a standard in LaTeX) and often missing in EPUB files. 
> However,
> it still ignored my attempt to apply outline numbering to the default
> Heading styles. But, it did recognize the heading styles for my table of
> contents and navigation keys on my Kindle.
>
> As you allude, this is a good tool as long as you understand what it 
> will,
> and will not, do. Work within its parameters and you'll like the 
> result. Try
> to make it work *your* way, and it will disappoint.
>
> Virgil
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:41 PM
> To: Virgil Arrington
> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: 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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