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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Spike, I have been uploading VALIDATED epub2s to the KDP platform since January 2012 (it was Hitch, bless her, who told me that would work), and I've never had one fail. I do use a style sheet and I do edit the code. You can borrow my style sheet from https://notjohnkdp.blogspot.com/2013...yle-sheet.html
Though it upsets some of the regulars here, I don't use heading and paragraph styles in Word, and I do use an old version of Sigil (0.9.18) since it works just fine for me. I also use an old version (2007) of Microsoft Word because I'm not willing to pay the asking price for a more recent edition. The only reason I use it at all is that my editors expect it, and because I have set of WordStar editing commands that making using it easier than any other Windows program I've encountered in recent years. I can't imagine going back to the mouse and the backspace to fix things; one might as well use WhiteOut! |
CTRL+Backspace in Word, BTW, deletes the last word typed. (one word to the left). CTRL+Del = delete one word to the right. If memory serves, those are not much different than the two-fingered WS commands.
As far as not obeying the strictures around paragraphs and headings, at your age, NJ, I don't
really expect you to change. But at some point--and I don't think it's years from now--Amazon is going to go full-tilt boogie into accessibility and when that happens, they're going to want your books to have clear delineations as to what's a heading and what's a paragraph. You've heard it here first, if you didn't read what I've said about this previously, boyo.
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Word2CleanHtml dot com online does an excellent job of cleaning up Word's messy html for import into Sigil.
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Sez you.
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(There are plug-ins that do the same thing.) I think you should keep plugging away at Sigil. It's a great piece of software. I love it almost as much as I love my DOS WordStar from 1991.
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Toxaris' ePUB plugin for Word is pretty damned brilliant and there are, as you say, numerous Sigil plugins that the lads (and Becky) around here have created that are also pretty damn spiffy.
Hitch