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Originally Posted by glebarc
I was warned in the manual not to use OpenOffice (now LibreOffice), because their instructions are specific to Word; but yes that sounds like a great idea! I had never heard of writer2epub. I just installed the plugin, will try it - thanks!
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Unless they've massively revised their style guide, Smashwords' meatgrinder works fine with OO/LO as long as you get the basic idea:
All formatting is to be done using the style sheet, except possibly inline bold and italic (like the title of a book).
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Originally Posted by glebarc
VERY few Smashwords authors have an easy time converting their Word docs through the Smashwords meatgrinder. It should be called the authorgrinder. Then when you try to convert it yourself into an epub, the fun really begins! Epubcheck (any version) doesn't tell you really what's wrong; at least FlightCrew tells you more!
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Dunno, I've never had trouble. Everything validates on the first go. Think the worst problem I had was an out-of-proportion cover.
That having been said, I write in .txt using a Notepad equivalent so I get to skip the lengthy stripping-down process that you run into from using Word or OO/LO. Just import the file, make the style sheet, apply it, and be done!
Then there's also Sigil, which you can use to compile an ePub as well.