Our goal is to make this add-on into a full eBook creator, with just enough customization to be widely useful, but not so much that it becomes unwieldy.
In order to become useful without any customization, this add-on should at least be able to reliably export words as a standard-compliant EPUB file.
IMO the default eBook export should focus on words first, images second and other content last. I would be happy, if it exported just the words, but in a standard-compliant and meaningful way:
omit images and other media (or replace them with external links)
add basic bibliographical data to the cover page like URL and date of creation
add basic bibliographical data to each chapter like URL and date of publication (design for blogs as default use case)
So I’m getting closer to having my book going on write.as and if ePub were to work, it would be pretty swell to have that available. But it sounds like there’s still work to be done. @matt Has there been any progress?
Hey not so far, unfortunately. Some of the issues brought up earlier by @sfsspace and @rhubarb will take a varying amount of effort to fix, and I don’t have the bandwidth for it at the moment. But I do want to polish up this feature as soon as I can.
As for those issues @davepolaschek, what problems exactly are you having with page ordering?
As for the page-ordering issues, I used the “novel” format, and then later discovered I missed a chapter. When I added it, it was appended, and I probably need to go edit things somehow to get it to present in the correct order to someone visiting the front page (or presumably getting an epub once that’s ready and I pay for the feature).
I see this posting with a long history. But I do not get my write.as-blog exported as epub-file so far. Images and links are gone. Text seems to be ok. Any ideas?
