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 <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> >To: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>; e-letter <inp...@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 <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> >>To: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>; e-letter <inp...@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 <inp...@gmail.com> >>>To: Virgil Arrington <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> >>>Cc: rost52 <bugquestcon...@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 <cuyfa...@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 >>> >>>-- >>>To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >>>Problems? >>>http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>>Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>>List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>>All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>>deleted >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >>Problems? >>http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>deleted >> >> >> >> >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? >http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >deleted > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
