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Originally Posted by Jamestoo
Can you recommend a source for ebook formatting written for someone like myself at the newbie level?
Thanks
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Having been a newbie myself I'd like to be able to recommend something for you. But there are so many ways of producing ePub ebooks and so many people have so many different background skills and interests that it's difficult to know where to start.
I suggest, if I may, that you ask this question in the ePub forum. There are several stickies or threads that can give you pointers and many expert users who are happy to share their experience.
For what it is worth I used to dabble in web design, so am comfortable working with XHTML. the process I use is to
- get clean text - usually a Word or text document
- divide the text into front matter, chapters and endmatter sections
- add valid XHTM 1.1 tags to each section and validate the files to W3C standards
- copy the XHTML files into an ePub template, and edit the conten.opf and toc.ncx files to match
- validate the ePub package with ePubCheck and with FlightCrew.
Elizabeth Castro has written two very helpful books that I use frequently:
HTML, XHTML & CSS, and
ePub Straight to the Point
I hope this helps.