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

Hi :)
That was an interesting choice that i wouldn't have considered.  Nice one!  Hopefully that might 
make it easier for people with a good reason for wanting ePubs to make them for themselves.  

Is there any chance of forwarding your work to the Docs Team here?  Perhaps ask them if they could 
get it into Lulu and/or more relevant stores as a 3rd party guide?  What license does the original 
eLaix guide use?  Is it a "CC by SA" copy-left agreement?  Could you relicense the new work with 
the same license?  Typically with the official guides they use the CC-by-SA (a Creative Commons 
copy-left license) and so contributors are expected to add their own name to the list of 
contributors.  Some people are too shy to do so but i quite like the list showing lots of names to 
show off the variety of people involved.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 13:27
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
>
>
> On 08/15/2013 08:20 AM, Fernand Vanrie wrote:
> > trie the Elaix extension
> > > 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.
> I just tried the eLaix extension. As a quick test, I just converted the 
> eLaix manual itself, a thirty page, highly formatted .odt file. I worked 
> surprisingly well, with just a few quirks. I look forward to using it more.
>
> Virgil
>
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