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Originally Posted by st_albert
As Ducks said, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are two forks of the original Star Office. Either OO or LO work with writer2xhtml and/or writer2epub, which are extentions to OO or LO. Not separate stand-alone programs. BTW the writer2xhtml I'm talking about is found here, and comes within the "writer2LaTex" package. (are you confused enough yet?). They do seem to release betas every so often, so I don't think development is quite dead yet.
So to use it, you install LO or OO, install the writer2xhtml extension to LO or OO, write your document in LO /OO just like you would in Word, and then do file | export | as epub or as xhtml. (Of course you could also load a .doc or .docx or rtf, etc. that was already produced in Word.)
On the other hand, writer2EPUB is a different LO / OO extension you can find out about in its own MobileRead forum here. Works similarly to w2xhtml, but produces epubs directly with the click of a button.
Either way produces a valid epub (provided you do your part), which can then be loaded into Sigil for tweaking. W2xhtml is more flexible but less user-friendly IMHO, and can be customized to reduce the amount of tweaking necessary, if you're planning to do a lot of ebooks.
W2ePub is more streamlined, but somewhat less customizable unless you're into hacking the macro code under the hood. It's great for doing one-off conversions of .docx to e-pub for personal use, where convenience is more valued than perfection. |
But your explanation helped a lot. Thanks. W2xhtml sounds really good. Appreciate you taking the time to explain things.
One question: which is better LO or OO for somebody like me just writing fiction. And (I guess this is now two questions) do you have a link for where I could download it? Thanks.