OK let's start at the beginning. I have a huge amount of word files I created as a consultant during the past 30 years. Now, I want to convert them to ePub and leverage all this IP.
Due to the big amount of eBooks, outsourcing the production is not an option or it is a very expensive option. So I created my desing flow based on Word, Notepad++, Sigil, Kindlegen to produce ePub and Mobi/KF8 files. It works pretty well, specially the Sigil to epub to Kindlegen interface that is completely automated with AHK_L scripts.
However it still takes me too long to create an ePub/MOB/KF8 due to the Word to HTML bottleneck. I need to automate this.
It is doable because of the characteristics of my books. I always have the same presentation in Word, same styles etc. (I do not have paying clients with the risk to have to fix an exception and more important, I do what I want). So if one process works with one doc file it will work with all my files. Then it makes sense to include this process in a command file to be run by my AHK_L script.
I build business eBooks with a lot of lists, notes and warning blocks, tables, images etc. Save as filtered HTML is not an option because I need the cleanest possible HTML to edit the files with regex (automated also within my AHK_L script).
Anyway, then using the same script, I zip the epub file and open it in Sigil (I do not open HTML files but the epub directly).
When I validate the epub file, the same script will automatically unzip it, modify some files and create the mobi file with KindleGen (running the OPF) once more in the same script.
Now the save filtered HTML + Calibre. I already mentioned that save clean HTML is not an option. Regarding Calibre, as far as I look at the different threads here, it is more than a pain it is really dolor. This is the reason why I thought JSWolf was kidding. BTW I apologize for the "self esteem problem". It is 2 AM here in Spain and I started my day yesterday at 6AM. I am enough tired to not be able to control myself. Sorry again.
About Toxaris tool, as far as I know I am the only one who
posted the results of my test in his thread.
For the moment, I think it is unmature and I should look for something else. I have no time to do the beta testing. It is not only the fact it doesn't support a command file, but the basics are simply not there.
So, Hitch, yes, I got the answer I expected, nobody uses DocToHTML.
As a conclusion, I think we are all guilty, I was not able to explain my needs, I don't believe my english is the issue (I can do it in spanish or french if needed). Some of you provided a solution before understanding my needs. In a sales situation, this is a fatal error.
I go to sleep a little bit.