The strange thing was I didn’t extract the oxt from the zip. I simply renamed the zip to an oxt. There was no oxt file inside the zip.
Virgil
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:36 PM
To: Virgil Arrington ;
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Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
Hi :)
I think extracting the Oxt from the Zip file makes it work better but i haven't really dabbled with Extensions much at all so i really don't know either
Regards from
Tom :)
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From: Virgil Arrington <
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To:
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Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 12:34
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
I installed it through LO's extension manager.
I also found that I had to change the name of the extension file from a
"zip" file to an "oxt" file. I just did that through Windows Explorer. Even
though LO's extension manager says it recognizes ZIP files, it installed
better with an OXT extension. I don't know why.
Now that I think about it, maybe that was the key variable rather than
uninstalling AOO. Looks like I changed too many variables to be able to say
for certain *which* change made the whole thing work. And, I did it all so
quickly that I cannot now recall the order of all my changes.
Virgil
-----Original Message-----
From: jorge
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:43 PM
To: Virgil Arrington
Cc: Kracked_P_P---webmaster ;
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Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
Hi all !
Virgil, How did you try to install the "writer2epub" ? Did you use the
wizzard that have LO or AOO ?
Regards,
Jorge Rodríguez
El mar, 13-08-2013 a las 20:36 -0400, Virgil Arrington escribió:
> I got mine from
http://lukesblog.it/ebooks/ebook-tools/writer2epub/.
> There's
> a version that words for LO 3, LO 4 and AOO 3, along with a separate
> version
> for AOO 4.
>
> My problem wasn't that I had the wrong version. I got the version that was
> designed for LO. It just wouldn't install as long as I had AOO on my
> system.
> Once I uninstalled AOO, the extension worked fine with LO.
>
> Of course, I have no idea *why* this behavior occurred. I won't blame AOO
> or
> anything else. I can't even scientifically say that LO and AOO had a
> conflict. I just know that, once I uninstalled AOO, I was able to install
> the writer2epub extension into my LO. I recalled someone else on the list
> saying that LO and AOO may conflict by sharing common Windows registry
> entries. That stuff is beyond my abilities, but I just shared it for
> others
> who may be interested.
>
> Virgil
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:41 PM
> To:
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> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
>
>
> There is a version for AOO, several actually written by a guy with an
> Italian country code.
>
> One for version if for 3.x, another for 4.0, and a new Beta one.
>
> So you may need to look into which one you are using for which version
> of LO or AOO.
>
> I found this out by Googling "odf to epub converter"
>
>
> On 08/13/2013 04:15 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > Another thing I noticed about the writer2epub extension. When I first
> > downloaded it, it would not properly install into my LO 3.6.7. I then
> > uninstalled my AOO 3.4.1 and AOO 4.0. The writer2epub extension then
> > installed into LO.
> >
> > It appears (as others have alluded) that LO and AOO have some conflicts
> > when installed side by side on the same machine (registry perhaps which
> > is
> > beyond my knowledge). Since I'm finding that LO is progressing better
> > than
> > AOO, I'm happy to commit to just one of the suites.
> >
> > Virgil
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Virgil Arrington
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:58 PM
> > To: Tom Davies
> > Cc:
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> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >
> > I just redid the Writer2epub test with my theology paper after applying
> > default LO styles. It worked a *lot* better. I really liked the way it
> > handled the default "Text Body" style by not indenting the first
> > paragraph
> > after a heading and then indenting subsequent paragraphs. That is
> > excellent
> > typography (a standard in LaTeX) and often missing in EPUB files.
> > However,
> > it still ignored my attempt to apply outline numbering to the default
> > Heading styles. But, it did recognize the heading styles for my table of
> > contents and navigation keys on my Kindle.
> >
> > As you allude, this is a good tool as long as you understand what it
> > will,
> > and will not, do. Work within its parameters and you'll like the result.
> > Try
> > to make it work *your* way, and it will disappoint.
> >
> > Virgil
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:41 PM
> > To: Virgil Arrington
> > Cc:
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> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >
> > Hi :)
> > That sounds a lot like LaTeX being best if you stick with their defaults
> > so
> > it kinda makes sense to me. I think the Docs Team (i think mostly Dan &
> > Jean wasn't it?) experimented with a few ways of getting ePubs from the
> > guides and they might have useful ideas about it even though it's years
> > later already.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Virgil Arrington <
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> >> To: Tom Davies <
[hidden email]>; e-letter <
[hidden email]>
> >> Cc:
[hidden email]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 19:22
> >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >>
> >>
> >> I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried
> >> converting
> >> the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then
> >> tried
> >> doing the same with just the 18 page introduction. Same result. No EPUB
> >> output file was generated.
> >>
> >> I noticed that Writer2epub doesn't like custom styles. It is apparently
> >> designed for fairly simple documents, using LO's built-in styles. It
> >> can't
> >> handle the elaborate formatting of the LO User Guides.
> >>
> >> I then tried it using a theology paper I wrote a few years ago. I have
> >> several outline numbered styles, which again, Writer2epub doesn't
> >> translate
> >> well.
> >>
> >> I think Writer2epub will work best with a document that is designed
> >> from
> >> the
> >> beginning for EPUB, but if you want to translate an existing document,
> >> you
> >> may need to do considerable work to make it ready for the extension.
> >>
> >> These are just my observations after a half-hour experiment.
> >>
> >> Virgil
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies
> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:46 AM
> >> To: Virgil Arrington ; e-letter
> >> Cc:
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> >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >>
> >> Hi :)
> >> Sorry, got distracted. Here's a link
> >>
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications > >> Regards from
> >> Tom :)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> ________________________________
> >>> From: Virgil Arrington <
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> >>> To: Tom Davies <
[hidden email]>; e-letter <
[hidden email]>
> >>> Cc:
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> >>> Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 14:11
> >>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Tom,
> >>>
> >>> Do you have a link to one of the guides? I may have a go at trying
> >>> different
> >>> ways of converting one to EPUB just to see how it works. Might be kind
> >>> of
> >>> fun.
> >>>
> >>> Virgil
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 8:31 AM
> >>> To: e-letter ; Virgil Arrington
> >>> Cc:
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> >>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >>>
> >>> Hi :)
> >>> Has anyone successfully tried this to get ePub versions of something
> >>> fairly
> >>> hefty such as our Published Guides? I think it would be great if we
> >>> could
> >>> get all those guides done as ePub wouldn't it? Anyone able to give it
> >>> a
> >>> go?
> >>> Regards from
> >>> Tom :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> ________________________________
> >>>> From: e-letter <
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> >>>> To: Virgil Arrington <
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> >>>> Cc: rost52 <
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> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 12:56
> >>>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 12/07/2013, Virgil Arrington <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> >>>>> That works just fine. For my tastes, however, it's not quite as
> >>>>> smooth
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> process or polished a result as with LyX/LaTeX.
> >>>>
> >>>> Agree, for PDF, but it seems that the future of viewing content is in
> >>>> digital format via mobile devices. So for archiving to paper, LaTeX
> >>>> wins and maybe epub for electronic archives.
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: rost52
> >>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:00 PM
> >>>>> To:
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> >>>>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "As a proud papa..." I would open the document in Writer, select all
> >>>>> and
> >>>>> set
> >>>>>
> >>>>> styles to Default. Then
> >>>>> create the styles I wanted and reformat the whole document.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> By coincidence there has been a guide published to write epub
> >>>> documents using LO:
> >>>>
http://opensource.com/life/13/8/how-create-ebook-open-source-way > >>>>
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