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Thanks for the tips. I'm finally making progress.
I found that Wordperfect can export to EPUB, and in fact it includes tools to help you build your eBook. The version I have is quite old and I was surprised to find this feature, but there it was.
I was able to open and edit the eBook using Calibra, and while much of the book looked okay, it still needed a lot of work. Fortunately, I have some experience with HTML and CSS/styles, although I am quite rusty with it, so after some effort, I was able to get things looking about right.
The file WP gave me did not make extensive use of styles. For example, the settings for each paragraph, usually several lines of code, was used to set up each paragraph. I replaced them all with a p.Paragraph style I created. Seeing as the book has a little over 2,000 paragraphs, this saved a lot code, plus it makes changing the look of all of them at one time easy. Likewise for images, and pretty much everything, such as date formats and placements in letters, chapter and book section headings, tables, and more.
It's been a learning process, and as I am working with nearly 7,000 lines of code and text, it has been a lot of work, but things are turning out well.
I've been using Calibra for all of my post-WP work, and it has been great.
I guess now I need to get an actual eBook device. I need to be able to review and edit this book in an environment my reader is likely to be working in.
Speaking of editing, this project helped me find and fix a half-dozen typos. That's not a lot, considering the book is just under 70k words long, but it doesn't take many mistakes to spoil a book.
So, my first eBook project is turning out well, which means there will be future eBook projects.
Mike
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