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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Thanks Dennis. I don't know how to backport from Sigil to .odt. If I had the original untouched .epub I could but as soon as I opened the epub I started making changes.
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You open up the .odt file in LibreOffice. You open the ePub in Sigll. You scroll through the Sigil content, and you manually input the changes into the odt in LO.
(Consider that the price you pay for making changes that extensive in Sigil. ePub is a good eBook storage format. It is
not a good
manuscript storage format.)
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I was looking at pandoc and it's command line only. I couldn't get the latest version to install. (It opened up in the Software Center but did not install.) It is in Synaptic but it's an older version there. But I can get it.
Do you think Pandoc might convert epub>docx better than Calibre?
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I don't know. I haven't tried to do that.
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Is Pandoc pretty easy to use? Kind of like:
$ book.epub book.odt
Or is it really complicated?
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What counts as complicated? Read the Pandoc documentation.
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(And I do my primary editing in the .odt. It's just any typos or tweaks may happen in .epub and it would be impossible to find out what they were to make the corresponding changes in the .odt.)
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Not impossible. Just more trouble than you wish to go through.
Next time, don't
make the changes in the ePub in Sigil. Have the odt file open in LO when you review in Sigil, and make the changes you see needed in the odt, then generate a new copy of the ePub.
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P.S. Pandoc did install. It just took so long I gave up on it.
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You are running an older lower powered machine, so not surprising.
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P.S.S.I found the instructions for converting in Pandoc and am following them now.
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Let us know how you make out.
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Dennis