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I am currently doing quite a bit of writing using the calibre editor. When done, it is already (of course) a finished epub. To print it out is a matter of conversion to Pdf. I have arrived at this circuitous route via many, many years of other methods. I began with Gregg stenography and manual typewriter with (quite literal) cut and paste. I visited Bell Labs near Holmdel New Jersey in '68 and saw the first forays into UNIX. Before DOS I wrote one of the owners' manuals for the Texas Instruments early computers, then later taught the very first relational database at a college near NASA. CPM advanced the Wordstar diamond pattern at this time, requiring one 8 inch floppy to load CPM, a second to load Wordstar, a third to load the formatter. The business world flocked to the non-camel case, crippled MS DOS. The advent of ALT and function keys (added to the one and only Ctrl key) killed off the diamond, but -- believe me -- many successful professional writers still use the Wordstar command set. I remember when Borland came out with "choose your own menu" for all of its products and Microsoft sued them. Think about it: their own spreadsheet was the marketplace failure Multiplan. Does anyone use Word Perfect? Ironically, Microsoft purchased DOS, Excel. It is a convoluted world and you get to vote with your feet. For now, calibre is a real good 'word processor' for making epubs. Why use a middleman? The answer is 'what ever works for you.' Best regards, Pop
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