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Old 04-23-2015, 11:33 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by RobertDDL View Post
I apologize, I shouldn't have said crappy. I am aware that there are good tools available for creating and editing ePub -- I create ePubs from LibreOffice using writer2epub when I have to, and it serves my purposes well enough. And no, I am not determined to edit ePub with a text editor, I've just stated that I can't, and I prefer formats where I can. I simply do not see the advantages of the added complexity, compared to HTML (and ePub is more complex). And I've mentioned LibreOffice just as proof that book-sized HTML texts can be satisfactorily rendered. When I have a large text file that I want to read on my computer, I edit it, tag it, convert it to HTML (with my own tool), and read it in LibreOffice. When I want to read it on my ebook reader, I have to convert it to ePub, or I wouldn't have a TOC. Not much trouble -- just, as I've said, I do not see the advantage (though ePub with its smaller files and its built in TOC may be easier to handle by a device with small memory and slow processor?)
And what about my point, that you are doinng precisely what you profess to dislike every time you convert HTML to ODT and read it in LibreOffice...
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