https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163196
--- Comment #6 from Phil Stracchino <[email protected]> --- OK, first up: Mishandling of double spaces is actually a VERY SMALL PART of everything that LibreOffice's EPUB export — or, rather, I should say, libepubgen — fouls up. I operate a small publishing imprint, and it is actually LESS WORK to blow away ALL of the formatting in a LibreOffice-exported epub and reapply it all by hand than it is to attempt to clean up the exported EPUB's formatting. (WHY does the exported EPUB need to be cleaned up post-export? Because so much of it is non-compliant and wrong, and because it is a hideous un-editable mess.) ELEPHANT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM: libepubgen is unfinished v0.1.1 alpha-quality abandonware that hasn't seen a code commit in nearly three years now. SUGGESTED SOLUTION: Pandoc is pretty solid, although currently its ODT reader is buggy and loses formatting. I suggest that LibreOffice abandon libepubgen and instead switch to using pandoc to generate EPUB exports. The bugs in pandoc's ODT reader can be worked around, until they are fixed, by exporting a copy as DOCX and then converting that DOCX to EPUB. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
