A single, nicely packaged, PDF file, easy to distribute:this is one of
the appealing features of PDF export.
But actually, this can be achieved in HTML, out-of-the-box with Org Mode
and Firefox.
My recipe:
- Write your book in Org Mode, with any content you want:
+ tables, headers, bullet lists, whatever
+ PNG or SVG images (file:myimage.svg)
+ Ditaa (#+begin_src ditaa :file myditaa.png)
+ Gnuplot (#+begin_src gnuplot :file mygnuplot.svg)
+ GraphViz (#+begin_src dot :file mygraphviz.png)
+ MathJax (#+html_mathjax: align: left) ($$\sqrt{x+1}$$)
- Add HTML formatting (optional)
+ CSS to customize fonts, colors, sizes, layout
(#+html:<link rel="stylesheet" href="my.css"/>)
+ InfoJS to expand-collapse in the browser as in Org Mode
(#+infojs_opt: view:info toc:nil ...)
- Export & package to a single file
+ C-c C-e h h
+ zip the whole directory to mybook.zip
(along with SVG, PNG images, CSS style-sheets, JS)
- Distribute your book
+ send mybook.zip to your friends and colleagues
+ ask them to point their Firefox to
jar:file://mybook.zip!/mybook/mybook.html
The magic Firefox feature is the jar-bang trick which allows browsing
within a ZIP.
If someone knows a less cryptic syntax, it would be great.Also, this
trick only works in Firefox. Is there something similar in other browsers?
Have fun
TB
