On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >> >> Am 2009-12-02 um 18:03 schrieb Otared Kavian: >> >>> For those on the list who didn't see this thread on XeTeX mailing list: >>> How about ConTeXt and mkiv? >> >> Hm, your subject is a bit misleading - I thought you wanted to *create >> eBooks* using TeX. That would be much more useful... >> Even if some eBook devices can display PDF, AFAIK we still cannot create >> the re-flowable variant (needs a XML stream, see other discussions about >> tagged PDF or PDF/X). >> >> In one of the latest c't (German computer magazine) there was a nice >> article on creating eBooks in Epub format (HTML based). Even if I don't >> intend to buy an eBook device, it made me think again about using another >> input language than TeX to create HTML, ConTeXt and whatever from one >> source. Knut Lickert recently gave a talk on "Creole for LaTeX" (Creole is >> an unified Wiki markup syntax), I'm still planning to use ReStructuredText >> (Python's documentation syntax) - note to self: finally adapt that LaTeX >> output filter to ConTeXt! > > Processing epub is rather trivial. On my machine I have a sample style and > processign boils down to: > > context --ctx=x-epub --autopdf dickens-a-tale-of-two-cities.epub > > However, the main reason for not posting the style is that I have not much > reason currently to work on it. Also, as epub is effectively just packaged > html, one ends up with styles for each specific book ... you just don't want > to know what mess is hidden in those epub files (for example i ran into > using h2 for the chapter numbers and h3 for the chapter title). > Maybe epub as backend is a more interesting idea: given (some kind of gentle ) tex file one can produce an epub file as result.
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