The important part is that the markup elements map to the correct style names. Mostly it’s just using some centering and line spaces to separate elements. This makes it easier to read in the preview window. In the Vellum Export style I created, I added some text formatting. This style sheet really needs nothing more than a mapping of Ulysses markup to a named DOCX style. The actual text formatting is thrown out (the eReader handles that part) but the style names are what Vellum uses to figure out the book’s formatting. Vellum provides some sample Word templates that show the styles it uses to import a DOCX file. Using Ulysses and Vellum togetherįirst you need a style sheet that tells Ulysses to how to format the DOCX file. Well it doesn’t happen by magic, there’s a bit of planning involved. (Did you spot the countdown until this beta version expires?) Directly exporting to Vellum from Ulysses. One unexpected benefit is that the eBook creation app Vellum can receive Ulysses’ DOCX export and drop the contents directly into a formatted eBook without needing to save the Ulysses export to disk. It’s not as universal as RTF, but it’s close enough and is usually accepted by most places.īut I have to admit the Ulysses developers did the right thing by keeping up with standards. Fortunately both Pages and TextEdit can re-save the DOCX file in to the older Word ’97 DOC format. No matter how good the Ulysses output styles are, there’s just some things have to be done in a app like Pages, Word, or InDesign. (Have you noticed all the email spam that includes an “invoice”? Yep, those invoice.zip files come contain a DOCX file pre-loaded with a macro virus!) Even so, I was a bit miffed when the Ulysses developers made me resort to another app to deal with the Ulysses export.īut I also found that there’s a couple of ways this also helped me out.įirst off, I can send the output directly to Mac Pages for further formatting and conversion to PDF or ePub (occasionally I might even print something). ![]() These files aren’t usually accepted via email because of the chance that they carry a macro virus. The v2.1 Ulysses update replaced RTF with DOCX, the new Word 2007 format. It meant I had one click export to a standard rich text format that’s usually requested by publishers. ![]() One that was convenient was the RTF option. Its export options offer a variety of formats. I’ve written a lot about how I abuse the poor thing. The Ulysses app can do a lot besides writing.
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