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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Interesting tips, Kacir.
Solitaire: Is there a reason you're not using Word, exporting the file and then using Sigil? I looked at Atlantis (though not in depth) and, unless its epub capabilities far exceed those of Word and Sigil, I'm not getting why Sigil wouldn't be more precise. There's also Office along with decent epub plugins for that, one of which I've also used.
I've had decent luck with as-yet unpublished story collections and all sorts of pieces I read from publicly using my PRS-950. However, I'm struggling with a book of experimental verse that might end up working best in a later rev of ePub.
Even it looks surprisingly lifelike exported from Word, opened in Open Office and saved with the writer2epub plugin. It looks especially clean (though incomplete) using Sigil. I'm working on that now.
What's cool is that the line breaks and quirky typography (all in the same font), and some of the line indents, seem to make it through.
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I don't have MS Word on my system at home. I do have the following word processors on my system: Jarte, Atlantis Word Processor, StarOffice 8 (SO8), and 602Text. After using MS Word at work for years, I prefer using another word processor at home.
I while ago I took a quick look at Sigil and I preferred to stay with the method I was using to make PDF ebooks at the time (all done through SO8). When I got my Kobo Touch, I found that PDFs didn't work as well on it as it did on my Sony Reader. When I made a PDF sized for my Sony Reader's screen, it looked exactly as intended on my reader's screen.
For EPUB ebook creation, I was looking for the same experience that I had making PDFs using SO8, the ability to use a single program to do all of the work. This includes editing and formatting the text, marking the chapter and sub-chapter indicators, inserting the metadata, and then exporting it to EPUB.
So far, using Atlantis Word Processor to make EPUB ebooks has worked well for me. If I start having problems then I'll give Sigil another look.