[LINK] RFI: Cross-Media Publishing under Linux/OO

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Kim Holburn wrote:
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> The only way I've been successful is to save the book as html, edit the html, convert using calibre, edit with sigil.  If you want your epub on lulu to go to the ibookstore it is a very painful process.  It really helps to try them out on an ipad.  Speaking as someone who has had 3 books accepted through the whole process and 6 still pending.  
> 
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The EPUB has to be in XHTML and reference the appropriate XML Schema. If 
you are using Open Office for the paper version, you have to strip the 
schema...
> The advice was to break the book up into separate files for each chapter. I chose to go with 7 files of XHTML. The W3C Markup Validation Service's Tidy was useful in converting my HTML to valid XHTML.
> 
> Each image, in the book, will be a file. A css style sheet and three other files are also required, in a specific directory format, in the E-PUB Package. Harrison Ainsworth's Epub Format Construction Guide explained this structure well.
...
> Before trying to import the HTML files, Strip out the EPUB XML & XHTML references from. ie Replace <?x...
<http://ramin.com.au/linux/formatting-e-books-and-paperbacks.shtml>

Once Lulu accepted my EPUB, they published the EPUB version just about
instantly and a day or so later, the itunes version was available.
<http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/1890s-annandale-a-short-walk/16321601>

Marghanita
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