How do you convert your Novelwriter document to an epub?

[mogplus88]

I can't be the only NW user wanting to publish on Kindle, so, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, how do you do it? What is your workflow? I'm trying to do it for the first time, and have run into some problems (see my earlier post about Strange copy behaviour).

All advice gratefully received.

;-)

[vkbo]

I am working on adding EPub (see #2058). But it isn't ready yet.

That said, novelWriter is only intended to generate a manuscript, so the process of going to publishing should be mostly the same as if you wrote your novel in LibreOffice or Word.

[HeyMyian]

I use the Calibre ebook-convert command in a terminal:
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert.html

The input is a novelWriter-generated html file.

I can't tell you right now why I made those choices for TOC, page-breaks and style as it's been quite a while since I put this together. I'm also not sure if they're ready for publication on Kindle as I don't do that but the resulting epubs serve me well. Maybe this helps you or someone else.

ebook-convert "manuscript.html" "manuscript.epub" \
--authors="My Name" \
--title="Manuscript Title" \
--cover="cover.jpg" \
--language="en" \
--epub-inline-toc \
--level1-toc "//h:h1" \
--page-breaks-before "//*[@style[contains(@style, 'page-break-before: always')]]" \
--remove-paragraph-spacing \
--extra-css=".sep { margin: 2rem auto\!important; }"