On 11/20/2013 8:59 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
As far as ConTeXt is concerned, you can process the above XML quite
easily. Come to think of it, it may be a useful to provide a module that
maps HTML5 to PDF.
Aditya
I would vote for that approach. It is pretty much analogous to what I
have decided to do. I'm doing my actual writing in HTML. creating CSS
for ebooks and ConTeXt environment files for PDF. I'll probably hack the
html2latex Perl script to do the mapping. Pandoc will /not/ meet my
needs because Markdown does not distinguish between emphasized text and
italic text and Pandoc compels all other input markup to behave like
Markdown. Textile would be perfect but only outputs HTML well. The
RedCloth implementation does output LaTeX but ignores CSS-style classes
applied to paragraphs et. al.
My needs are much simpler than the majority of people on this list. I
have no need for math, no need for indexes, no need for bibliographies,
footnotes or citations. BUT I want really top-notch visual output
whether in PDF or printed on dead trees. The latter is usually the
result of giving the printer process PDF files anyway so for the visuals
I want, PDF is the common denominator and TeX (whether LaTeX or ConTeXt)
is the most reasonable path, InDesign is not for poverty-stricken
wretches like me.
Unfortunately (for many reasons) the market for the stuff I write is
hell-bent to replace printed books and even replace high-quality
electronic presentation with formats in which the reader chooses almost
everything, regardless of whether it compliments the text or not. EPUB
(especially EPUB3) does appear to /want/ to provide
author/designer-determined presentation but it can still be ignored or
overridden by the reader. I don't want to even imagine the visual
discordance of reading something like /Jane Eyre/ with double-spaced
Comic Sans but if the e-reader allows it....
I'll crawl back under my rock, now.
--
Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan
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