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Originally Posted by gmw
Meh. There's nothing inherently crazy about HTML as a source format. Word and LO use XML as a source format, which always seemed crazy to me, but they make it work. Mostly its about the software you build around the format. There are some decent HTML editors out there, and it would certainly be possible to do better than the ones I've see so far in terms of style handling and so on. Plus HTML is easily and fairly reliably imported or converted into pretty much anything else.
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Not the same thing at all as there is no sensible Wordprocessor that uses HTML + CSS as the file format. Only half baked HTML WYSIWG editors that let you edit CSS directly.
Really only LO Writer (using odt) or MS Word (using docx) are sensible ways to write and edit a book.
HTML or PDF is easily produced directly (better from LO than Word up to 2007 anyway). Epub via Calibre or Sigil from docx (which LO can export/Save As).
I'd not go back to WYSIWG HTML editors, Wordstar (either flavour) or Wordperfect.
I'd use Notepad++ or KATE for text files or program source where a Wordprocessor isn't possible.
If you want an ebook (via docx) and PDF for paper and maybe samples on a Website, then MS Word (docx source) or LO Writer (odt source) is the best solution.
Also non-ebook destinations (editors, publishers etc) want doc or docx format. Real HTML is only for websites. Epub, even epub3 uses HTML and CSS files, but not exactly the same as a website, so a WYSIWYG HTML editor even with sensible CSS support is really bad way to author a book. At best it lets you tweek exported HTML or edit epub content (but Sigil and Calibre editor better for that).
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Originally Posted by gmw
All that aside, when using Chrome OS it seems that Google docs is the most obvious way to go. Certainly it can import HTML, not sure if it can import epub directly, but apparently it can export to epub. Nothing Sigil-like about it, but I don't know enough about Chromebook to offer any other suggestions.
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Google Docs is madness. It's worse than Word XP/2002, maybe worse than Word 2.0a. Also not private. It's best used only for temporary collaboration.
If it's an Intel/AMD Chromebook, then swapping Chrome OS to Crostini Linux is best. It may be possible to install Linux on ARM Chromebook, but I don't know.
There is a reason why a real laptop in CEX is about x3 price and up of the €150 Chromebooks there. A Mac OS laptop about x5 and up in CEX; new Apple stuff is better value than CEX S/H Apple.