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I got mine from http://lukesblog.it/ebooks/ebook-tools/writer2epub/. There's a version that words for LO 3, LO 4 and AOO 3, along with a separate version for AOO 4.
My problem wasn't that I had the wrong version. I got the version that was designed for LO. It just wouldn't install as long as I had AOO on my system. Once I uninstalled AOO, the extension worked fine with LO.
Of course, I have no idea *why* this behavior occurred. I won't blame AOO or anything else. I can't even scientifically say that LO and AOO had a conflict. I just know that, once I uninstalled AOO, I was able to install the writer2epub extension into my LO. I recalled someone else on the list saying that LO and AOO may conflict by sharing common Windows registry entries. That stuff is beyond my abilities, but I just shared it for others who may be interested. 

Virgil
-----Original Message----- From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster 
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:41 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: 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 :)






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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 :)






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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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