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

I was just playing around. I'm not so motivated as to do all of what you're 
suggesting.

I've had a Kindle now for a couple years, and I've been fascinated with 
trying different ways of creating/converting documents for its use. The 
basic Kindle (as opposed to the Fire), is just a text reader. While it will 
display graphics, it's not very elegant. I've found that books with anything 
more than a stream of text create issues for the Kindle.

I have to wonder if the LO user guides are simply too complex for elegant 
translation to e-reader format.

Virgil

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On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That was an ambitious test! Perhaps LaTeX might be better: convert to
(x)html using tex4ht and then compile the epub. Personally, would edit
the xml using a text editor and compile the epub via the command
terminal; compilation is surprisingly easy. 


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