Went to a presentation at life universe and everything that was hosted by the programmer and author, Jared Barneck. He talked about how the software. Sigil can be used to make a good quality e-book. Here are my notes from his presentation.
– Sigil is an open source software.
– Works on all platforms. There are two modes. A WYSIWYG, be HTML
– Use smaller words for titles, so that a big word will not break a naturally in appearance.
– Author: J Abram Berneck go to website to get nine chapters of this book
– Don’t put spaces between paragraphs.
– Indent 2 to 5, but may be better to do 3 to 4 spaces for paragraphs,
– Sigil template is available for e-book
– Don’t convert your manuscript to sigil until you’re done rearranging paragraphs and editing
– To prepare your document, save word as HTML or copy the text and paste the text.
– You can do a save as and browse and tell you find the setting of type
– Every chapter or section of a book such as prologue introduction credits. Table of contents should each have their own file.
– Table of contents, do not use the words. Table of contents in Sigil
– In sigil it will provide his own form the table contents. Do not include page numbers or… For you. Table of contents or can mess up for Manning
– Do not write a line in your text.
– Split marker: just generates a new file.
– Type the first chapter as 01 so will not mess up the numbering of your chapters.
– If your book is to bed such as have many photos, Amazon will charge you download fees for downloading big books. It may be free up to 10 make
– Do not put any separate images into your document. There are two big use text symbols instead and copy and paste.
– To learn HTML, go to W3 schools.com
– Chapter headers equal 81 CSS: means cascading style sheets. They influence the display of images on your book.
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