[Sent this to Pavel Sanda first---he recommended that I send it here.] Didn't quite know where to post this but wanted to express my support for the ePub export project. I am not a programmer myself---I'm an IT manager in publishing, and and a novelist---so I regret that I can't help out on the project. But I think that this would be of immense value to independent publishing.
I coach authors in ebook production, and I see many of them struggling fruitlessly with a variety of user-unfriendly, inefficient ePub creation methods. I know LyX is more technical than many people are ready for (e.g. the requirement to do a TeX install), but I would love to be able to point my clients and fellow novelists at LyX as their write-once, output-everywhere tool. It is almost there for me: with the aid of Pandoc I can use Markdown and LaTeX documents as the source for print and electronic editions of my novels. But Pandoc, taking you to the command line, is a bridge further than I believe most authors will ever go. Thanks to you and everyone in the community for your work on LyX. I've been using it for several years, and it has made me a far better writer, publisher, and designer than I was before I encountered it. Through LyX, I learned much of what I know about typography, and the proper way to deal with structure, content, and formatting---independently. ---- Ben Hourigan +61 4 2291 6341 Hourigan & Co. | consultants hourigan.co | benhourigan.com Author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy and My Generation's Lament. Sample and purchase my books at Amazon, Smashwords, the Apple iBookStore, and wherever good books are sold online.
