Hello R What I would like to see is good format control during conversion to an ebook format, which is where using PDF scores the best. The ePub format and other ebook formats have no real control over format and seem not to understand things like “Keep with next paragraph” for headings and they definitely lose their way when it comes to tabs or tables.
Using PDF we retain good format control and the guides have a good professional look to them. This is something that is important because it does give good impressions to the end user of LibreOffice. I am working on a simplified book template taking away all the OOo styles and using standard names wherever possible. Need to add another chapter before I can send out a sample for comment and review. Regards Peter Schofield psaut...@libreoffice.org On 22 Apr 2014, at 21:31, Robinson Tryon [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] <ml-node+s969070n4106072...@n3.nabble.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Jean Weber <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Thanks for all your work on this. I'm glad you've kickstarted this > > topic again, and are following through so vigorously. I hope we can > > carry it through to some positive resolution this time, instead of > > having it fall by the wayside as has happened several times before. > > Update time! > > I've made a few more tests and changed some Tab-based layout to > table-based layout (which is much more HTML/EPUB-friendly). See the > tests referencing 'Boldt' (Harry Boldt is the developer of eLAIX) > here: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/EPUB/Converting_ODF_to_EPUB#Tools > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:38 PM, PeeWee <[hidden email]> wrote: > > However, if the eLAIX people can develop something that improves format and > > layout control, then I am willing to test it to see if it improves my > > opinion. It could be worthwhile going into EPUB books so long as the > > conversion is easy and does not take a great deal of time to prepare an > > EPUB book for publishing. > > > > Boldt is working on a new version of eLAIX that will hopefully address > even more of the little problems we've identified in the EPUB output. > I'll give another ping when that version is released, and perhaps > PeterS can take the lead here in evaluating what we might need to do > to our templates to make "1-click" PDF and EPUB output possible. > > Cheers, > --R > > -- > Robinson Tryon > LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald > Senior QA Bug Wrangler > The Document Foundation > [hidden email] > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [hidden email] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Manuals-in-ePub-format-tp4104451p4106072.html > To start a new topic under Documentation, email > ml-node+s969070n1645240...@n3.nabble.com > To unsubscribe from Documentation, click here. > NAML ----- Peter Schofield psaut...@libreoffice.org -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Manuals-in-ePub-format-tp4104451p4106119.html Sent from the Documentation mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
