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Uploaded a new version with a Windows installer that downloads/installs all third party software. Absolute prerequisite is to have a C:\Windows\System32\msvcrt.dll present on your computer (this is the basic Visual C++ runtime shared library many other software uses as well): despite it being called "redistributable", its license actually forbids that.
Getting that to work has been very time consuming, for what amounts, IMHO, to almost nothing. I've conduced enough tests to conclude that :
a) Installing, running the test script as described in the documentation, and rebuilding the documentation using the GUI works on both Windows and Unix. It takes 1/4 hour, all downloads files included, plus nothing but GUI config files, that have to be in your home folder, is ever installed/modified outside the installation folder.
b) On non-Windows OS, probably including Mac OS/X, installing dependencies from sources when binaries/packages are not available can be a drag, especially when it comes to wxLua (every thing else should be almost effortless), unless you are able to tackle with "configure" scripts and makefiles (I actually had to, so, given I do not even run Linux, I assume it is feasible in most cases, but I unfortunately cannot be of any help there.)
c) Building ePUB and PDF from .odt, or .(x)html compliant to the specs, works, at least in most case, and most certainly can be made to work in any case: the documentation itself being as complex as can be, it will remain, for the time being, the measurement unit in that matter.
d) .doc to .odt to .html using Open Office must be handled with care : it will more often that not loose/damage formatting information. That may be either harmless or break the formatting process.
This is more than enough as far as I am concerned, so I'll leave it at that for a while and give myself a break.
"provided 'as is', without warranty of any kind", as the saying goes.
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