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