Quote:
Originally Posted by Quoth
My automatically converted by Calibre from docx exported by Save As from Libra Office Writer are consistently better than ebooks by big publishers. I do have to edit css classes for any images (I don't usually have many) to either an absolute pixels high or a percent width depend what they are for as the Styles for images don't map well. All the text paragraph styles / headings etc map perfectly to CSS classes.
|
Which is great but at times, trying to convince a wannabe author that writing their book in Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer can work very well and is easier than trying to learn many epub editors
but you need to spend some time learning about and using styles makes banging your head against a brick wall seem a pleasant alternative.
One author reently sent me a .docx file where they hit a return at the end of every line and did little else other marking a few words as italic. When I sent back the result of sucking the document into Sigil using the docx plugin and also doing a calibre docx to epub conversion, they were rather unhappy. My suggestion that they talk to the person who referred them to me and discuss using styles which the referring author has gotten very good at using drifted off into a "they will distract me from writing and it's your job to fix up the book" rant.