I am REALLY tempted by Vellum but I haven't heard any/many skilled coders weigh in on the subject. Not nearly so slick as Vellum appears to be, but I'm guessing that's exactly how it works under the covers - it's just a fancy front-end for CSS styles.Īn advantage of my roll-your-own solution is that I have complete control and can run similar scripts to produce extracts for my website, styled just like the eBook. I can then style the HTML how I please using CSS, and zip it back up into an ePub, which Kindle Previewer is happy to convert to. ![]() I then unzip it, and run a script on it to knock out the hard-coded HTML style information and replace it with "chapter", "first-letter", "first-para", "separator" CSS styles. I use Scrivener to generate an ePub file. I came up with my own solution for that, though, because in a past life I was a developer… If I'd known about Vellum, I might have given it a go on. Bit tedious to go through and do that, but it didn't take that long and I was able to maintain a single master in Scrivener.) (What worked in most cases for me was a special code to artificially break a paragraph somewhere before the widow / orphan problem. Scrivener doesn't have widow and orphan control, but you can do a lot using the Preset Replacements feature. I settled on Scrivener for everything and decided I'd work around certain limitations.įor example, the PDF interior I sent to CreateSpace came directly from Scrivener and I'm very happy with it.
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