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

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Martin,

thanks a lot for the information, this is very exciting news indeed!! :-)

Christoph

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Martin Sevior <msevior at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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-- 
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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