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Originally Posted by KenJackson
DocBook is kind of a miracle format that allows you to create a document once and convert it to almost any format. I'm pleased to see there is a DocBook to epub conversion tool. But I sure hope it generally does a better job than this or is fixed soon. Though I'm not certain that's what they used to create it.
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Does NOT sound much like a miracle format to me!
BTW, my intent was not to bash Linux, Red Hat, or say that any MS app was used. You obviously seem to hold you Linux feelings on your sleeve. My point, having been a technical writer for more than 25 years, was that many companies might know how to create software and hardware but few know how to create good documentation, especially ebook documentation. Most companies seem to put documentation on the bottom of their list of priorities.
My main point was and is that ANY format converted to ePub will not likely be as good as a document originally created in ePub. Most of the WYSIWYG document creators for HTML placed way too many tags and used way too much unnecessary CSS. The same is true of apps not designed to natively create ePubs. Whatever app they used to create their ePub, it did a lousy job, whether that offends you or not I could care less.