Really grateful to Les for his advice below. This works very well! Gracias... from India. FN
On 14 July 2014 04:30, Les Denham <lden...@hal-pc.org> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:08:47 +0530 > Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا > <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 > -- FN P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 http://goa1556.in
