An old saw... EPUB and HTML export options suggestion

[Affinity-Inspiration]

Given that Affinity Publisher is now quite a mature package, and quite brilliant at that, it would be really nice to see the much-requested EPUB and HTML formats in the Export table. Given that both have been around since computers, or at least the web was invented. 

The epub tree is really quite simple.

Quote

The Story Name
The Container name
   > Text
   > Misc
   > Styles
   > Images
   > Fonts
   content
   toc
   >Meta-Inf
   mimetype

Which anyone can see, by renaming an epub document to a zip file and extracting it. There's the tree. Now the Text folder contains the story pages in HTML format, so obviously creating HTML pages is also a by-product.

A third-party program on the mac and PC called 'epubcheck' is there and free to check your created EPUB files prior to sending for publishing. 

Personally, I find the whole EPUB-creating thing now so last century that I don't bother. I don't have a use for it. Even KDP is bypassing it. They and all the other publishers create their own versions from almost any file you want to send them—reflowable or Fixed Format. And of course, EPUB is only reflowable, and is now almost proprietary. The new Kindles read fixed format (EPUB3) fine.

However, there are a LOT of people who choose to roll their own and publish EPUBS for personal distribution - bypassing the print houses. And that's fine.

Anyway, It would be a nice addition. Instead of 

Sigil, Calibre, Jutoh and Adobe Digital Creations, we'd had a nice addition to Publisher.

Just a suggestion that I hope bears fruit,

Robert