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roger64 · 03-11-2012, 07:55 PM

Hi,

I certainly will not deny the need to understand and practice html and css, if only because it's the stuff ebooks are made of.

You can however produce standard EPUBs and embed fonts using LibreOffice in a graphical way only.

You have to know how to use styles with this word-processor.
You will also need to be able to attach (still within LibreOffice) a very basic css style-sheet containing a @font-face declaration like this one, which even can be written for you by dedicated sites like FontSquirrel:

@font-face {
font-family: 'LinuxLibertineOCRegular';
src: url('linlibertine_c-4.0.4ro-webfont.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

Here is an exemple of one ebook of this kind, embedding the true smallcaps font quoted above. It has been realized using exclusively LibreOffice (and its W2X extension)

I would like this post not to be deemed as offensive on this particular forum, so I must add that Sigil is invaluable to check and edit your EPUB for whatever may go wrong and that I have been making use of it for a long time and still do.

03-11-2012, 07:55 PM	#10
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,625 Karma: 3120635 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	Hi, I certainly will not deny the need to understand and practice html and css, if only because it's the stuff ebooks are made of. You can however produce standard EPUBs and embed fonts using LibreOffice in a graphical way only. You have to know how to use styles with this word-processor. You will also need to be able to attach (still within LibreOffice) a very basic css style-sheet containing a @font-face declaration like this one, which even can be written for you by dedicated sites like FontSquirrel: @font-face { font-family: 'LinuxLibertineOCRegular'; src: url('linlibertine_c-4.0.4ro-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } Here is an exemple of one ebook of this kind, embedding the true smallcaps font quoted above. It has been realized using exclusively LibreOffice (and its W2X extension) I would like this post not to be deemed as offensive on this particular forum, so I must add that Sigil is invaluable to check and edit your EPUB for whatever may go wrong and that I have been making use of it for a long time and still do. Last edited by roger64; 03-11-2012 at 09:55 PM.