ePub Exporter

The ePub Exporter allows exporting to ePub files, which can be imported to iBooks on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. This way you can create your own ebooks.

Parameters

The topmost section "Parameters" allows adjusting settings for the ePub export:

• Title: Here you can assign a title for your ebook.
• Author: The author of the ebook, most probably yourself.
• Language: The language of the ebook, you can choose between English, German, French, and Spanish.
• Display Excerpt for each Document: If this option is enabled, the excerpt of the Document will be displayed between the title and the content of the Document.
• Cover Image: Here you can drag & drop an image into the field, which will then be used as a cover image. To remove it, simply select the image and press Backspace.

Paragraph, Inline and Marker Styles

Each of those settings has a table, in which specific actions can be assigned to the used Styles and Markers.
The actions for Paragraph Styles are quite straightforward: for instance, you could assign "Heading 1" to a Level 1 Heading Style. This way, the text will appear centered and in a larger font size in the ebook. There are also three default actions available: "Delete Tags", "Delete Paragraphs" and "Don't touch". If "Delete Tags" is selected, the tags are removed. The option "Delete Paragraphs" removes the paragraphs inside the tags. The last option, "Don't touch", retains both the tags and the contents.
For Inline Styles, you can also assign actions. Simple actions are for example "Emphasis" and "Strong". If you select the former, the text will be put in italics, if you select "Strong", it will put in a bold font. In addition to those simple actions, there are also more sophisticated actions, "Reference actions". Examples of these are links, images, or footnotes. Each of them usually links the content inside the tags to the Notes.

• Link: For links, enter a key into the Inline Style content, then a dash ("-"), and then a description, for example [[link1-The Soulmen]] (if the start and end tags of the Inline Style are [[ and ]], respectively). Then, create a Note containing the start tag, the key, the dash, the link, and the end tag (e.g., link1-http://www.the-soulmen.com). In the exported file, a link to http://www.the-soulmen.com will be created.
• Image: To insert an image, only enter the key into the content of the Inline Style (e.g., <<img>>). Into a new Note, enter the start tag, the key, a dash, then drag & drop the image, another dash, a description, and the end tag. The image will be inserted after the paragraph.
• Footnotes and References: Footnotes and references are quite similar. However, the output is different. Footnotes are added at the end of the chapter, whereas references are added as an extra chapter at the end of the ebook. Adding references and footnotes works quite similar to adding images. First, put the key inside the Inline Style (for instance, ##footnote1##). Create a new Note, and enter ##, the key (footnote1), a dash, the content of the footnote, and the end tag. References work the same way.

The same actions (except the Reference actions) exist for Markers, except for "Delete Tags", since tags are not available for Markers. Instead, characters can be inserted at the start and the end of the selected text using the action "Enclose in". These characters are arbitrary; the start and the end characters of the selection can be different as well. To do so, separate the start and the end characters by " - " (space dash space), e.g. if there should be an "S" at the start of a label and an "E" at the end, "S - E" should be used.

To make looking up the formats for the text and the Notes a bit easier, you can simply click the "Show available Actions…" button at the top of the Paragraph Style table to see a sheet containing the formattings for all Styles and Markers.

Characters

In the section at the bottom, you can replace quotation marks and correct dashes (i.e., if you entered "--", it will be converted to an em dash).