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Originally Posted by DaleDe
It might be better in the wiki or post it both places for long term use.
Dale
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Perhaps I should explain -
I didn't set out to explain the use of OOOFBTools, only to give guidance on the way to use the footnote conversion part of the tool, and even then only really enough to overcome RbnJrg's immediate problem.
I put together the document in odt form so that it could include a workable example that could be used in conjunction with the tool. It was what I would consider a "quick and dirty" explanation to meet a specific problem.
Although I used fb2 extensively some years ago as it is an easy format to edit (all you need is a text editor) I've found little evidence that the MR community does so, indeed I've shifted to EPUB because of the limitations of fb2. In reality though, the OOOFBTools extension is a valuable add-on to LibreOffice and I use many other facilities it provides when working on EPUB conversions. I have mentioned this use a few times in reply to other posts but have had no responses so have assumed that either folk who used LO as a word processor as opposed to MS Word either were aware of it or had no use for it. There is actually a Google Group in English (most other documentation is in Russian) dedicated to the tool, however it has only four members, the owner, a developer, myself and one other and has had no activity for the last three years.
With this in mind, while I'm flattered that there is a suggestion that the document would be worthy of a Wiki entry I think it would need a bit more work to make it more generally useful.
I have attached a copy of the original document (it's zipped up because of MR attachment limitations) and I would be happy to assist anyone who feels a need to include it in a Wiki entry or some other general guidance document. At least it cannot contain any glaring errors as RbnJrg seems to have used it successfully.
Overall my EPUB production generally uses three add-ons for LO -
OOOFBtools
Tomas Bilek's Alternative Search (extensive stored regex S&R)
Writer2xhtml - this adds an EPUB export filter
These provide most facilities I need to manipulate text (often poor OCR output) into a final EPUB document that can be fine-tuned with Calibre/Sigil.
BobC