[IAEP] [support-gang] Sigil - a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor

[Martin Sevior]

We have added the ability to export to ePub format from AbiWord. This
feature will be added to Write once sugar moves to abiword-3.0.

Cheers

Martin

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:10 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I discuss a couple of possibilities for making EPUBs in my book.
> Besides Sigil, there is also the Booki software I used to create my
> two FLOSS Manuals.  Unlike Sigil, this is something that can be used
> from Sugar without needing anything other than Browse.  Of course you
> could use any image-drawing Activity or perhaps Record to add pictures
> to the book, and I modified the Sugar Commander Activity so it can
> resize images to fit in a book.  You don't need to write a FLOSS
> Manual to use Booki.  There is a site that will let you write a book
> on any subject:
>
> http://www.booki.cc/list-books/
>
> You can also set up your own Booki if you like, and Sugar Labs has an
> instance of it for the "Replacing Textbooks" project.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's a great find! Especially on the day Apple launches their walled
>> garden for ebook publishing.
>>
>> I have been researching EPUB3 and HTML5 as the future roadmap for the Lubuto
>> Library lessons I have been amassing. Etoys is proving to be overkill for
>> what the libraries need in Lusaka.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
>> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> via Google+ I just stumbled across the Sigil project (
>>> http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ ) which describes itself as "a
>>> multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor designed to edit books in ePub format".
>>>
>>> Now I was wondering whether anyone here has any experience with it?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>> --
>>> Christoph Derndorfer
>>>
>>> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
>>> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
>>> contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net]
>>>
>>> e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu
>>>
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