No problem! I do love talking about webpage stuff!
If this is your goal, you can't go wrong with LaTeX for pdf.
LaTeX is great, though I'd like to see if I can get good results with ConTeXt, which is also TeX based, since it provides PDF tagging for screenreaders, which I've heard LatTeX doesn't currently do. But I'll have to investigate the matter more closely.
Thanks for reminding me of StandardEbooks! Yeah, taking a look at their styles will probably help my work look a lot more professional.
Low barrier of entry, true! But using Calibre for conversion, it seems to me like buying a Cadillac for the cigarette lighter.
The reason Calibre conversion is a big deal to me is that it does proper chapter divisions and autogenerated Table and Contents. I have three longfic and PermianExtinction also has a multichapter fic on my site. A use case the AO3 document downloads don't accomodate well is browsing through chapters and picking one or part of one to read--to really do that comfortably, one has to use the website. This is especially something I find useful if I've already read a work and want to find a certain part. And LibreOffice does not do proper chapter divisions or Table of Contents for epub, either.
Of course I can use search for that sometimes, but it can really help a lot to have chapter headings to browse through as well. Search depends a lot more on precise memory than this form of navigation, which I feel makes rereading longfic more fun. Also helpful for people who don't read their fiction sequentially. While that's not generally me, I like to accommodate different types of readers.
Of course there are many other great features of Calibre, but this one has been especially useful for my particular document creation use cases.
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LaTeX is great, though I'd like to see if I can get good results with ConTeXt, which is also TeX based, since it provides PDF tagging for screenreaders, which I've heard LatTeX doesn't currently do. But I'll have to investigate the matter more closely.
Thanks for reminding me of StandardEbooks! Yeah, taking a look at their styles will probably help my work look a lot more professional.
The reason Calibre conversion is a big deal to me is that it does proper chapter divisions and autogenerated Table and Contents. I have three longfic and PermianExtinction also has a multichapter fic on my site. A use case the AO3 document downloads don't accomodate well is browsing through chapters and picking one or part of one to read--to really do that comfortably, one has to use the website. This is especially something I find useful if I've already read a work and want to find a certain part. And LibreOffice does not do proper chapter divisions or Table of Contents for epub, either.
Of course I can use search for that sometimes, but it can really help a lot to have chapter headings to browse through as well. Search depends a lot more on precise memory than this form of navigation, which I feel makes rereading longfic more fun. Also helpful for people who don't read their fiction sequentially. While that's not generally me, I like to accommodate different types of readers.
Of course there are many other great features of Calibre, but this one has been especially useful for my particular document creation use cases.