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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
I use Scrivener, and it acts pretty much the same way, except that you create the folders, you don't have to mark where they would be. And it compiles into epub that validates, which is what I need it for.
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Yes, but Scrivener is not free. To be honest, I'm proposing something like this because I don't like Scrivener as a writing program. I actually own Scrivener for Windows, but haven't used it much lately because I started to dislike it. I'm veering more and more toward WriteRoom/DarkRoom-like editors to be honest.
Just using it [edit: Scrivener] to generate the EPUB after importing text-files would make it expensive at $40.
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A program like you postulate would be simple to use - I assume it would have a Notepad-type interface - but then you'd need a bunch of other programs to do your layout (either e or paper).
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This program wouldn't have any interface at all. It would be a commandline program. Apart from the directory structure, it would have no file format. That's the entire point.
It could be run from any editor that can call an external program. There are a lot of those, many of them free. Any such editor would essentially be able to produce EPUBs. The editor would just call "create-ebook <name here>" in the background, and it's done. No options, no nothing; just a bare-bones, but perfectly valid XHTML or EPUB file.
For your layout, you could use any program you'd want that can open and edit EPUBs, starting out with a completely clean (X)HTML or EPUB file.