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I'm trying to produce ePub versions of fact sheets published by my organization. Agreed, these are not your average book, with a long table of contents, sub-headings, links between them, a few tables, and a glossary. The sheets are produced in MS-Word, converted to HTML with an AutoIt program. I have produced an AutoIt program to convert them to eReader (.pml) format, which is then converted with DropBook. The glossary is added as a dictionary. The tables are captured as images (.png). The result in my Centro is fine. The format looks good, and the imaged tables are clear, being scrollable both horizontally and vertically.
I have duplicated most of this in ePub format using Sigil. This (except the imaged-tables) displays reasonably well in Adobe Digital Editions on the desktop. But the results have been very disappointing in the various Android readers. I'm at last beginning to get an understanding of CoolReader's handling of CSS formatting, but this is quite complex - and limited to a subset of the standard CSS elements. Haven't found a way to handle dictionaries. While Moon+ seems to work reasonably well for 'stock' books, I have yet to find out how (if at all) it handles CSS files.
But the bigger problem is that each Android reader seems to have its own idiosyncrasies, so one would either have to produce a version for each reader, or just use plain vanilla formatting at the lowest common denominator of the available readers.
If B&N/Fictionwise could produce a version of eReader for Android with the same functionality as the Palm version (granted the current one is beta), I think they could clean up!
Chris
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