If it works, use it! A few additional note however:

- I would run tidy -m <file.html> on the resulting (X)HTML file to get rid of any obvious glitches;

- Calibre can also be useful for converting (X)HTML files to epub; current versions of Calibre also allow editing the files

- pandoc provides a simpler html -> epub conversion; I have found it to be good IF you don't have many cross references in your MS. It fails (in the version I have) to make cross references when the html file is split by the epub construction process. Calibre does this correctly.

- epubcheck is available as a package for most Linux distributions and, I suppose but do not know, for other platforms as well. This allows you to do a validation check locally.

Regards,
Alan

On 04/08/14 09:46, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا wrote:
Just to say a big thank you for this, Les, it works very well!

With ebooks gaining in importance now, it would be great if Lyx added on more capabilities on this front. To make a great too, better!

Frederick Noronha
Goa, India
Founder and Editor
Goa,1556*

* Published over 70 books so far, nearly all set in LyX! See http://goa1556.in


On 14 July 2014 04:30, Les Denham <lden...@hal-pc.org <mailto:lden...@hal-pc.org>> wrote:

    On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:08:47 +0530
     Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
    <fredericknoro...@gmail.com <mailto:fredericknoro...@gmail.com>>
    wrote:

    > * What is the easiest way to convert a Lyx file (with images) to
    epub?
    > * How can one ensure this will be consistent with epub standards?
    > * Any site to test the resultant epub?
    > * Can Lyx developers help to develop some tools that make it easy to
    > create epub and other formats of ebooks?

    Frederick,

    I've done this for several books. From my experience the answer to
    your
    questions are:

    * Conversion
    1. Export your file to LyXHTML
    2. Using your favorite text editor (I use vi), delete the first
    line of
    the file (something like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>) and
    save as type HTML.
    3. The file can now be imported into Sigil
(http://web.sigil.googlecode.com/git/files/OEBPS/Text/introduction.html),
      which saves files in epub format.

    * Epub standards
    Sigil includes the FlightCrew validator, and also a link to validate
    stylesheets with W3C.

    * Testing the epub
    I don't know of any site for testing, other than
    http://validator.idpf.org/, which as far as I know does exactly the
      same as the Sigil validator. The real problem is that no e-reader
      supports the standards completely and exactly, so you need to test
      your epub on several readers. I use Nook, Calibre and FBreader.

    * LyX development
    I'll leave this to developers.

    Without images, the conversion is straightforward, with the main
    problem being how to handle footnotes: as epub is reflowable, the
    concept of footnote does not exist, so you will have to decide how to
    handle them. Sigil gives you the tools to implement any solution you
    decide on, but it may involve a lot of detailed editing.

    Images complicate the conversion. Do you want small images in a fixed
    location in the text? That is fairly easy. So is putting all the
    images
    at the end of a chapter (or at the end of the book). But if you want
    clickable links to images, and a clickable link to return you to the
    page you were on, it can become very complicated, and involve a lot of
    hand editing. But again, Sigil has all the tools you need for this.

    I hope this helps,

    Les




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