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Old 10-04-2018, 07:12 PM   #3
cootcraig
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
I use Linux and have created a few ePub documents, but my method is extremely simple. Like you, I use a text editor for the initial writing (Jstar, a WordStar-like Joe variant), then I read that file into LibreOffice Writer (after removing the extra hard carriage returns so the text will flow, probably not necessary in vim). Then I format the document however I want, save as ODT and read that into Calibre. And then just convert to ePub. It comes out pretty well. Nothing fancy. No diagrams or images.
I will try LibreOffice Writer. I'm likely to want images and diagrams occasionally, Writer might be just the thing.
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