As a great
ePub editing tool, this program has a clear interface, so that you can modify the fonts and paragraph styles easily.
Maybe what they really had in mind was a better
epub editing tool than the open source Sigil project.
In the idealised world GUI and WYSIWYG editors are not required, because outputs are perfect, but in the real - world it is convenient to have
EPUB editing tools.
Not exact matches
I'll also talk briefly about the possibility of using one of these
tools for conversion to the
ePub ebook file, and then a text editor or web - design app to do any post-conversion
editing.
Since then, Apple announced that iBooks Author would both import and export reflowable
ePub files, and so it became possible to consider this app as an ebook
editing tool.
The list is broken up into the Basics, Resources (Around the Web, Books, Community, Conferences, Ebook Retailer Specs, Podcasts, Special Topic: Regular Expressions),
Tools (Creating
EPUB, Creating Additional Formats, Unzipping and Zipping,
Editing, Validation, Conversion: Kindle Format), and Quality Assurance.
I think one of the best points you made was: «The other question... is whether we are willing to trust developers to write the
tools we need in the
EPUB editing space.
If you are planning to only create an ebook (no print files necessary), you might find Sigil a nice
tool for writing and
editing, as the simplified text
tools will limit you to only the options an
EPUB can support.
InDesign is a great
tool for
editing your print book version and it has an export
tool for ebook version (
epub) as well.
Depending on the
tool, you might try to
edit the files used to generate the
ePub, and then run the conversion again.
OTOH: I have found several rumor sites over the last few weeks asserting that Apple was about to release an
epub creation and
editing tool.
• Easy
ePub Creation and
Editing: With new content creation
tools, authors can easily upload a manuscript just once, then continue to write and
edit directly within NOOK Press, quickly and easily turning their work into a professional - quality
ePub file.
Lynne praises the Manuscript Editor which allows you to live
edit your eBook before it is automatically converted to
EPUB by the system; however, BB eBooks would discourage this practice as it is important to
edit the base HTML code rather than futzing around with a WYSIWYG
tool.
Depending on the
tool, you might try to
edit the files used to generate the
ePub, and then run the... [Continue reading]
Extract the contents of the
EPUB file,
edit it, and repackage it using widely available standard
EPUB tools.