You can begin by writing your ebook in LibreOffice Writer. Create the raw file in LibreOffice Writer.
However, expect some trial and error before you get the results you want. Without being an expert, you can produced better ebooks with just two open source tools: LibreOffice and Calibre. You have far more control if you do the conversion yourself.
Too often, the results are poorly formatted, partly because Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the language used to format ebooks, is limited, but mainly because automatic formatting is often too inflexible. The trouble is, most of these tools give you minimal control over the results. (I don’t know if it’s possible to put the illustration list elsewhere than at the end, but that line might cause a problem with this.) My illustration list is the one from the full version of the book.If you are publishing an ebook, you can find numerous conversion tools online. You’ll also be able to create a separate list of illustrations at the end, but you’ll have to do it yourself, following the example in the html for the reduced book: the name you put in the illustration contents list just after the #, will be the one you put just after the ‘id=’ label at the line where you want the image to be shown – see next posting. mobi file, Calibre will let you choose to put the table of contents at the start or end of the book or to leave it out altogether. I ended up including heading levels 1 and 3 but not 2 in the contents. You will be able tell Calibre to include various levels of headings in the table of contents (see below). I think I have more than one different label marking the start of some chapters but it doesn’t cause a problem. You could include a piece of clickable text somewhere else that said chapter 3, but would take you back to the label chap03 wherever it was, by inserting this: If somehow you accidentally convert them to smart curly quotes, it won’t work. Html does require straight double quotes there though. (It could all be on one line – html ignores new line commands of course.) The chap03 in quotes could be anything, for example “Intro1” or “label for sect 5″. If you’ll want to let readers click somewhere else in the book and jump to any particular heading, encase the heading within an structure like this: You can start a new line even within a heading using. You can go quite deep embedding or alternatively clauses within themselves. It doesn’t matter if the style commands are both inside or both outside the etc. You can also use around headings, or any other style indicators you might find in the title pages material, such as and the same with big. Put before and at the end of each top level heading such as chapter headings, and use, etc for more subordinate headings throughout.
For the headings, you will probably want to go through your html file, setting each heading exactly as required.
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