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Pulpmeister · 11-09-2020, 08:09 PM

Thanks for the comments Doitsu.

I assume the red highlight is the error, which is obviously the links colours. So long as the epub actually works, it's OK by me. I don't have any professional ebook tools, as you can tell. I know nothing of Java, which seems to be a necessary skill for epubcheck, and I can only do limited correcting work in html code. I know Word produces ugly html, but it's the only method I have.

And on the second point, I personally prefer to work with a single html document, rather than twenty or thirty of them. Simplifies my life no end when creating the links. It takes me about 15-20 minutes to massage the single html file from the time it's created by Word, to the time I load it into Calibre.

I have tried, way back in the past, some dedicated ebook producing software, but I never mastered it and the results were always dubious and never seemed to do exactly what I wanted. On the other hand, I have been using word processing since around the late 70s, so have opted to stick with what I know best.

11-09-2020, 08:09 PM	#26
Pulpmeister Wizard Posts: 2,531 Karma: 28893796 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Perth Western Australia Device: kindle	Thanks for the comments Doitsu. I assume the red highlight is the error, which is obviously the links colours. So long as the epub actually works, it's OK by me. I don't have any professional ebook tools, as you can tell. I know nothing of Java, which seems to be a necessary skill for epubcheck, and I can only do limited correcting work in html code. I know Word produces ugly html, but it's the only method I have. And on the second point, I personally prefer to work with a single html document, rather than twenty or thirty of them. Simplifies my life no end when creating the links. It takes me about 15-20 minutes to massage the single html file from the time it's created by Word, to the time I load it into Calibre. I have tried, way back in the past, some dedicated ebook producing software, but I never mastered it and the results were always dubious and never seemed to do exactly what I wanted. On the other hand, I have been using word processing since around the late 70s, so have opted to stick with what I know best.