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Can I ask your opinion of Sigii? |
Sigil and Calibre are good for turning content edited in LO Writer or MS Word, and possibly in some cases something using LaTex, into epub.
Sigil for more complex things like text books.
Calibre can pretty much automatically create a perfect epub novel from LO Writer (edit odt and an extra Save As in docx) or MS Word (2007 or later). Import docx and styles map 1:1 automatically to CSS.
You might need to edit the CSS of height / width of images.
You might spend less than a minute (any size novel) fixing non-standard headings with one operation.
If the Contents, headings, footnotes and styles are all done properly in MS Word / LO Writer, then the epub will have zero errors and work fine. Create all other formats from epub2.
A speciallist epub3 will need more work in Sigil, but the fancier it is the fewer ereaders and apps will run it.
PDF is best done by edit a copy of the wordprocessor source for epub after complete proofing. Add page styles, page numbers, headers, footers etc (a docx for epub has none of those). Then direct export of PDF. The LO Writer has been doing this as well as DTP or Indesign for regular novels and similar for ten years. Specialist DTP or InDesign etc only needed for very complex materials, magazines and newspapers and today they are better done with custom content management systems.
Scrivener does nothing for authors that free tools don't do better. InDesign and other DTP are for specialist paper publishing, madness for ebooks.