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Originally Posted by Artie
Hi all,
Many thanks for your answers, I really appreciate them.
I've been working with HTML and CSS for years, so this is not an issue. Image/HTML debate is old for me.
And I think this GIF is brilliant! Super! https://old.reddit.com/r/gifs/commen...less_terrible/
I started this thread to figure out which is the best workflow for tables inside an EPUB file.
If the EPUB format supports tables, I do really believe there should be a straightforward way to generate a document with tables that can be translated into an EPUB, in a clean way.
Right now, I use Ulysses for writing. When I need to write the table, I switch to Google Drive, create and populate the table, export as an image, and embed into Ulysses. Of course, when exporting to EPUB, the table shows.
But if I have to switch to a text editor to create the table, this is exactly what I do with Google Docs right now.
I have tried Typora, Zettlr, iA Writer and TableFlip to replace Drive, but if they support tables, they aren't able to export and vice versa.
Vellum neither Ulysses understand tables.
TableFlip and Marked understand tables, but they don't export to EPUB.
I don't want to use Google Drive, Word or OpenOffice.
I don't want to use images for tables (and maths formulas).
I want my EPUB file to have the lowest file size possible, as it is extended and contains lots of data.
I use Calibre to transfer the EPUB that generates Ulysses to my Kindle device. Sigil is new for me, but it seems a text editor.
Likewise, I'm confused about how Calibre and Sigil may help me, can you please elaborate a little more on that @Kalleen?
Many thanks! |
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something then.
How is it you expect to 'create a table' if
not with an HTML editor like Sigil or Calibre? I'm unclear on what you're expecting. If you
did use Word and exported to HTML, yes, you'd get an HTML table. Apparently, you don't wish to do that.
Word, for all its alleged issues (which are non-existent if you clean the file properly and use Styles and headings, I might add)
is a perfectly straightforward way to make HTML tables. I don't know if Libre Office does the same thing, but others here will know. In Word, you (simply) export to HTML; remove some of the CSS cruft at the top of the HTML file, or all of it, depending upon your experience, open the HTML in Sigil, and make your ePUB. Badda-bing.
If you want an ePUB with the
smallest file size, then you will use HTML tables, not images.
So, in short--you want/need HTML tables, but you seem to
not want to use the tool that will export that, in HTML, to a file format that you can then use to make an ePUB.
Is that right?
Hitch