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> >>But, Damn it, you just shot me in both feet. I agree >>with your assessment of Calibre. I spent a couple of >>hours today proving how useless it is. I write the >>books in a 6 x 9 inch book format set up in Libre >>Office and save as .odt, then save a as print ready >>PDF. I then convert the .odt to a html and clean up >>the code, but as BASIC html - no CSS at all. To ready >>a file for SOL and FS, I take the html version and >>convert it to tagged text, real easy as the html is >>very basic. >> >>As I said, I use basic html and can code simple web >>sites in it, I learned how before they invented CSS. >>For the stories I use only common HTML tags like those >>related to FONT, P, H1, H2, H3, B, I, BR plus their >>relevant closure and refinement tags. >> >>In the book and PDF format, I sue layout to indicate >>the chapters, sub-chapters, and section headings, in >>the html and tagged text I use colours to do the same >>thing, but Calibre and the Lulu e-pub wizard of >>destruction destroys all that information so I end up >>huge blocks of text and no way to see where a chapter >>or sub-chapter starts or ends. I refuse to put a story >>out in a format that looks like that much crap. >> >>I've not been able to find a way to create an e-pub >>version that allows me to use reasonable layout or >>colours to mark the chapters of sub-chapters unless I >>virtually rewrite the whole story specifically in >>special codes etc for the e-pub, which I'm not about >>to do. >> >>Regards, >> >>Ernest > >Ernest - Contact Wes directly and have him put you >directly in contact with me and we can talk off line. >I don't think you are as far from it as you think you >are. > >Doug

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