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8. Open the EPUB from the folder, or in the Terminal (Mac) type: open beowulf.epub 9. Note that you can also start with Markdown as a source format (we will explore Markdown in detail in the following chapter). Open the text file in your Markdown editor and save it as a Markdown (.md) file. Type the following command in Pandoc to convert the Markdown file to EPUB: pandoc beowulf.md -f markdown -t epub -s -o beowulf.epub While developing this Toolkit we created an online graphical user interface which makes it possible to use Pandoc to convert .docx files to HTML, plain text, ICML (InDesign) and Markdown. This browser-based converter is freely accessible online. 11 USING CALIBRE AND CUSTOM PLUG-INS Many other publishing tools are available, which roughly fall into two categories. One can be described as full-fledged editors, the other are tools which allow publishers to enhance existing publications with interactive features. Calibre Calibre 12 has been described as a ‘Swiss army knife’ for reading, converting, authoring and cataloging ebooks. It is Open Source, runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (with identical graphical interfaces on all these platforms) and is being very actively developed, with frequent version updates. We recommend it, along with Pandoc, as a standard tool for all ebook publishers. There are also (older) alternatives such as Sigil 13 which was discontinued in 11 An overview can be found on the Digital Publishing Toolkit Software Showcase, http://pandoc.networkcultures.org/ or go directly to http://pandoc.networkcultures.org/hybrid.html. 12 Calibre, http://calibre-ebook.com/. 13 Sigil, The EPUB Editor, http://code.google.com/p/sigil. 84
February 2014, and the inexpensive commercial program Jutoh, 14 which also runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Jutoh provides an easy-to-use editor for ebooks, with a graphical user interface similar to that of Microsoft Word. However, it is less powerful as a document converter and ebook database. Calibre can be used to: ∞∞ ∞∞ ∞∞ ∞∞ ∞∞ Open and read EPUB files on a personal computer; Import documents in various ebook and electronic text formats (including .docx, RTF, HTML and plain text) and convert them to EPUB and other document formats including Amazon Kindle, PDF and RTF; Manage a local library/database of all imported ebooks, with easy editing of the bibliographical metadata of each ebook; Synchronize the user’s ebook library with e-reader devices; Edit ebooks in HTML source code, with a live preview in a graphical user interface. Calibre advertises itself as ‘the one stop solution to all your ebook needs’. And indeed, (small) publishers can use Calibre as their single, one-size-fits-all tool for ebook production. Calibre is the most accessible and straightforward authoring software currently available for creating text-oriented, standardscompliant ebooks. However, Calibre’s user interface can be confusing. The program has so many features and modules that it can feel like several programs jammed into one. When it comes to converting files, the graphical user interface of Calibre is perhaps more user-friendly, but Pandoc produces better results. Despite these limitations, Calibre is an excellent program for importing simple text documents, adjusting the formatting, and exporting the result to the most common ebook formats. At the time of writing, the easiest and least expensive method of hybrid publishing is to convert the source text to Markdown, manually edit the Markdown into a well-structured document, use Pandoc to convert Markdown to EPUB, and import the EPUB into Calibre for final adjustments and conversion into other ebook formats (including Amazon Kindle). 14 Jutoh, epublishing made easy, http://www.jutoh.com. 85
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