On 18 Feb 2011, at 03:43, Mica Semrick wrote: > Have you considered authoring in something besides context? Say TEI XML or > Docbook, or even markdown (if possible)? If markdown is suitable, then you > can end up with both epub and context at the end. Or if using TEI or docbook, > you can write a map file (something I have been trying to do) and typeset the > xml file directly with context. I'm always happier knowing that I can get as > many different output types from a single source as possible.
I use ConTeXt, because for my main project I want detailed influence on layout and I want to use a lot of the powerful stuff like indexes, endnotes, footnotes, content, etc.. For a second, much simpler, project I was thinking about producing EPUB. I rather use only one environment (TeX, in this case ConTeXt and the Jove editor and make) and rather not work in multiple environments. So, for me, the start is ConTeXt. G > > BR, > Mica > > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:10:42 -0700 > From: Daniel Lyons <fus...@storytotell.org> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] EPUB workflow from ConTeXt source? > Message-ID: <d7225cf0-f6cf-485f-be01-c8a254efc...@storytotell.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > > On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:59 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > On 17-2-2011 8:14, Gerben Wierda wrote: > >> On 16 Feb 2011, at 17:47, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Am 16.02.2011 um 17:42 schrieb gerben.wie...@rna.nl: > >>> > >>>> I'd like to keep working in one format so I was wondering if there is a > >>>> ConTeXt based workflow/setup that can produce EPUB (next to normal PDF)? > >>> > >>> With MkIV you can get a xml version of document with > >>> \setupbackend[export=yes]. > >> > >> But that XML is not ePUB's XML, I assume. > > > > no, but one can of course convert one kind of xml into another > > > > for epub one has to provice css etc anyway (and epub is not much more than > > packaged html + css) > > This would also be useful to me. In my experience, the unpleasant part of > generating ePub is making correctly formatted manifests and putting them in > the right places inside the right kinds of zip files. If ConTeXt could do > this for me, it would certainly make life easier. On the other hand, it may > not be appropriate to bother because there are other tools that will convert > HTML to ePub for you and make the manifests (Calibre, for example). > > I consider CSS intractable so that's not something I would worry about > ConTeXt generating for me, if it were on the table. > > > going the other way around, processing an epub file also demands some > > handywork as the source code is not by definition well structured > > > ePub is definitely structured. I would say too structured, since it makes you > provide both a ToC manifest and a navigation manifest that necessarily must > include almost identical information ;) Of course, depending on a simplified > browser for your document viewing and having lots of secret failover modes to > handle poorly formatted documents makes the structure less meaningful than it > ought to be. > > You are free to break your document into as many HTML chunks as you wish, but > you are limited to fairly prosaic HTML and CSS. I'm of the impression the > HTML documents generally map onto chapters so as not to distress the > hardware's memory constraints too much. > > Overall, ePub and Kindle's format strike me as too much and too little > respectively. I should be able to change the font and the formatting, but I > definitely consider HTML + CSS is too much complexity. > > ? > Daniel Lyons > > > > ------------------------------ > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________
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