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Old 11-15-2010, 09:31 AM   #1
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I am wanting to write a document to become a ebook/epub. What program can I use? Or how can I get started? I want to be able to create chapter headings that one can go to on an ereader.
Can anyone give me some direction. Note: you are talking to a person who does not know a whole lot of computer language (and is feeling quite lost as I read a lot of posts on this forum), so, as I would truly appreciate some guidance, please go gentle on computer lingo.
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Old 11-16-2010, 02:52 AM   #2
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I am wanting to write a document to become a ebook/epub. What program can I use? Or how can I get started? I want to be able to create chapter headings that one can go to on an ereader.
Can anyone give me some direction. Note: you are talking to a person who does not know a whole lot of computer language (and is feeling quite lost as I read a lot of posts on this forum), so, as I would truly appreciate some guidance, please go gentle on computer lingo.
If you want to write your book in the ePub format could I suggest that you post in the ePub forum? There is at least one sticky which describes a step by step process.

For what it is worth I use an HTML editor, and then put the documents into a template I've developed. Other people seem to use Sigil, which has its own forum.

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There is a wiki article called Book authoring software that should help with this.
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Try using sigil if you want to start from scratch, the author has written a great guide on the googlecode page.

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Old 11-27-2010, 09:57 AM   #5
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Try using sigil if you want to start from scratch, the author has written a great guide on the googlecode page.

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Klutch, could you give me a link of what you are referring to?
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I assume Klutch means the tutorials here -- such as the BasicTutorial, perhaps?
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