On 2019-12-10, Jan U. Hasecke <juh+ntg-cont...@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Am 09.12.19 um 22:13 schrieb Nicola:
>> What is the current status of epub support in ConTeXt?
>>
>> I have never followed ConTeXt's development on the XML front too
>> closely, but recently I have been asked to help format a text-only
>> manuscript for publishing on platforms such as Kindle or Apple Books
>> Store. Can ConTeXt be used (or perhaps even recommended) for that? Or
>> would I have better luck with the proprietary tools (Kindle Create,
>> iBooks Author)?
>
> Sorry, no info concerning ConTeXT.
>
> You don't have to use proprietary tools. An easy way to create ebooks
> from Markdown files (or other sources) is Pandoc. https://pandoc.org/
>
> I produce all of my ebooks in this way. In most cases they validate
> without errors. If there are some errors though I use Calibre to fix
> them manually.
Thanks, I didn't think of Pandoc, I'll give it a try. In the past,
I have tried to create some simple content (slides) with Markdown, but
my conclusion was that if you know TeX, it doesn't make sense to use
Markdown :)
Perhaps this is a silly question (excuse my ignorance about the topic):
what if you want to add some stylistic touches to your ebooks, such as
initials? Or Non-breaking spaces? How about adding, say, a text box with
a different background and a smaller font?
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Or fine control page numbering, headers, footnotes, ligatures, or the
spacing between paragraphs, or center a separator as above? Do you need
to modify the generated CSS for that, or would ConTeXt (or Pandoc)
allow you to take care of (some of) those things?
Nicola
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