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roger64,
Looking at your work I'd be surprised if I had anything at all to teach you. Very glad you had posted it; can you recommend any English-language books on Napoleon and his generals that are not "Campaigns of Napoleon"?
I agree that a linked TOC is best, but it's a low priority for me because OpenOffice generates bookmarks when exporting to PDF, and it turns out that the DR-800 renders those bookmarks into a TOC, in proper hierarchy no less. It's probably not a new feature, but I'm quite impressed. I like covers too; I once saw someone post a link to a source of hi-res covers, but I can't find it now. I like SHY after reading about them here, but in OpenOffice the only way I've found to insert them is by hand.
frabjous,
I'll load your epub onto the 800 very shortly. OpenOffice definitely has its limitations and it's crossed my mind that I really ought to learn to use TEX, but I'm HTML illiterate and it's a daunting project.
The headings serve to illustrate the difficulties working with OpenOffice. I haven't figured out a way to place the chapter number and title in the same style and still maintain the layout except by margins, but that doesn't yield consistent results. Breaking them into two "paragraphs" causes two bookmarks to be inserted into the generated PDF, and I imagine would do the same in EPUB. The scheme I've been using, by the way, is H3 for chapters, H2 for sections, H1 for books, and I suppose H0 for collections if I ever create them.
I learned your point about styles the hard way after editing a few texts line-by-line. This is the first book I generated without using the Default style. I think I've gone too far, as I find that my instinct upon seeing any slightly different formatting in a text is to create a new style. For anyone starting out with OpenOffice, definitely take the time to figure out styles and linked styles as it will save you a great deal of time.
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