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Old 03-13-2014, 06:29 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Macsurfcat View Post
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I went looking through their site and found this reference to EPUB in their manual: http://oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-author/#...with-epub.html

And this video showing off some EPUB instructions: http://oxygenxml.com/demo/Epub.html

I assume all of their XHTML information would carry over to EPUB as well: http://oxygenxml.com/xml_author/xhtml_editor.html

And things such as Code Comparison: http://oxygenxml.com/xml_author/xml_diff_and_merge.html

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Originally Posted by Macsurfcat View Post
I am being introduced to Oxygen Author and am unable to locate, or ascertain, if any of these features are available, and how they work.
Who exactly is introducing you to this (your employer)???

Oxygen Author seems to be a proprietary solution based from their Editor... and if your employer already paid that fee ("starting from $349"), you should be able to get support from the company selling the product.

I personally am fine with InDesign -> Sigil workflow (as long as the styles in InDesign are done consistently using an "in-house stylesheet", you should have a series of clips that can do a nearly "one-click" conversion for you).

If the styles are NOT done consistently, it just takes a little bit of elbow grease to reverse engineer the hideous code, and clean it up using Sigil (or whatever editor you want to use, many people here do their editing in just plaintext editors).

Oxygen Author MIGHT be more of an advantage if you had a collaboration of people working on creating a single book (so you can take advantage of all of the commenting and more powerful SVN controls).... although that is up to you to weigh whether those are worth the "from $349" fee.

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