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Thierry31 · 10-07-2023, 07:59 AM

Good morning

After a few days, I finally created an ePub that was almost publishable except for a few final concerns for which I was unable to find solutions or research avenues:

Problem 1): all my part titles, chapters and appendices are shifted to the left with additional numbering on their left that I would like to remove.

Problem 2): the layout does not respect any single or multiple line breaks throughout the document (story and appendices).
Everything is glued without any line breaks!
For the moment I have partly solved the problem by asking to insert a line between the paragraphs in LAYOUT of APPEARANCES AND PRESENTATION of the CALIBER converter but this is an imperfect solution for lack of something better and I would prefer to find my layout on the original page, both without line breaks between the paragraphs of the body of the story but with the often multiple normal line breaks in the appendices (title page, legal notices, author's notes, etc.).

On the other hand, the table of contents and footnotes are very well managed.

I think the problem comes from the fact that I had to finish my book on OpenOffice Writer because I had managed to make the ePubs of my first three books without too much problem, then working in Word.
But Microsoft-daube simply blocked my lifetime Word licenses on my two computers two days apart. Hence an obvious obsolescence planned via Updates.
Both in principle and given the prices of Word, I preferred to switch to OpenOffice Writer which satisfies me.

Neither my printer (who manages my paper and digital books) nor me (with Calibre) can create the ePub from the pdf or .docx (by Wordpad) that I created. My printer discovers pages with bad tags that I don't know how to solve, not to mention at that time the absence of the table of contents and the failure to manage footnotes...

After many unsuccessful attempts for several days, I installed LibreOffice on an intuition which seemed more open on the Net than Writer to just create a .docx which Caliber seemed to prefer for the creation of the ePub since it does not has almost no more faults apart from the two highest ones which annoy me a little.

Thanks for your help.

Thierry
Town : Toulouse
Country :France

PS :
I hope the translation is good.

10-07-2023, 07:59 AM	#1
Thierry31 Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2023 Location: Toulouse, France Device: sans	some problems with my ePub created by Calibre Good morning After a few days, I finally created an ePub that was almost publishable except for a few final concerns for which I was unable to find solutions or research avenues: Problem 1): all my part titles, chapters and appendices are shifted to the left with additional numbering on their left that I would like to remove. Problem 2): the layout does not respect any single or multiple line breaks throughout the document (story and appendices). Everything is glued without any line breaks! For the moment I have partly solved the problem by asking to insert a line between the paragraphs in LAYOUT of APPEARANCES AND PRESENTATION of the CALIBER converter but this is an imperfect solution for lack of something better and I would prefer to find my layout on the original page, both without line breaks between the paragraphs of the body of the story but with the often multiple normal line breaks in the appendices (title page, legal notices, author's notes, etc.). On the other hand, the table of contents and footnotes are very well managed. I think the problem comes from the fact that I had to finish my book on OpenOffice Writer because I had managed to make the ePubs of my first three books without too much problem, then working in Word. But Microsoft-daube simply blocked my lifetime Word licenses on my two computers two days apart. Hence an obvious obsolescence planned via Updates. Both in principle and given the prices of Word, I preferred to switch to OpenOffice Writer which satisfies me. Neither my printer (who manages my paper and digital books) nor me (with Calibre) can create the ePub from the pdf or .docx (by Wordpad) that I created. My printer discovers pages with bad tags that I don't know how to solve, not to mention at that time the absence of the table of contents and the failure to manage footnotes... After many unsuccessful attempts for several days, I installed LibreOffice on an intuition which seemed more open on the Net than Writer to just create a .docx which Caliber seemed to prefer for the creation of the ePub since it does not has almost no more faults apart from the two highest ones which annoy me a little. Thanks for your help. Thierry Town : Toulouse Country :France PS : I hope the translation is good.