Editing Ebooks

After layout, learn how to edit, validate, and polish the HTML, CSS, or other components of your electronic book before publication.

Introduction

• Introduction to editing EPUBs
• What you need to know

1. Understanding the Basics

• EPUB structure: What's required and what isn't
• The OPF file
• Brief principles of HTML and CSS
• Tour of available tools: oXygen
• Tour of available tools: Sigil
• Tour of available tools: Other text editors

2. Getting Started

• Opening an EPUB and extracting the pieces
• Demo of the live validation tools in oXygen
• Editing HTML
• Editing CSS
• Editing the OPF
• Editing the NCX
• Editing the

3. The Finishing Touches and QA

• Adding semantic information
• Running regex searches
• Using validation tools
• Final editing touches

Conclusion

• Final thoughts