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Originally Posted by daudvyd
Thank you. What do you personally use for writing ebooks?
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ANY Word processor would be better. Word, if you're MSFT-inclined, especially--
especially--if you're going to use figures, captions, cross-referencing, etc. I can't emphasize that enough. For example, Pages, which is an Apple/Mac product, doesn't do indexing at all, so you don't want that (presumably).
So, in
my personal order of preference, MSFT Word, which is
truly the most advanced, followed by Libre Office, which is, all things considered, nearly as advanced as Word (and can also export to ePUB, by the way, which Word as yet does not do).
(n.b./caveat: I'm not a published author, in the sense you're thinking. I've written
millions of technical words, how-to manuals, legal docs with x-refs, etc. over the years. I currently own a company that makes eBooks--over 7K of them to date--and print design for paperbacks and hardcovers. So, I have a more-than-passing acquaintance with the HTML and CSS of eBooks.)
You can then export to HTML (filtered HTML, from Word) and open that in Sigil, if you're so inclined. But seriously, the functionality you're seeking--that's a massive uphill battle for eBooks and what will you do, when you export the HTML/ePUB, into devices that won't support count? It'll be a gigantic MESS.
Do that heavy lifting, renumbering with tags, references, etc. in the word processor. When it's all finalized, THEN export to ePUB/HTML. Trust me on this.
Hitch