Hi Richard!
Am 29.05.2013 16:33, schrieb Richard Heck:
>
> We are very pleased to have received support from the Google Summer of
> Code to have a student, Josh Hieronymus, work on LyX's XHTML and ePub
> export capabilities. We know that there are several people who are
> interested in this matter, so we are seeking input, here at the
> beginning, concerning what sorts of issues we should try to address.
Thanks for starting this thread.
I've published several books as printed books and as ebooks. My most
wanted feature is a tool to produce high quality PDFs (via LaTeX) and
good ebooks from the same source. No author wants to make corrections
twice. ;-)
I am currently using Sphinx, because it is the only tool I've found that
produces LaTeX-PDFs and epubs from the same source.
http://www.hasecke.eu/Members/juh/sphinx-a-tool-for-self-publisher
Another tool which looks promisingly is eLAIX an add-on for LibreOffice.
I blogged about it in German.
http://literatur.hasecke.com/news/e-books-mit-libreoffice-produzieren
The homepage is http://elaix.org/
It would be wonderful to have an epub export in LyX, because it could be
a tool which is usable by non-technical people. The publishing industry
is changing and for the next five years people will look for tools to
produce high-quality print books and ebooks from the same source.
I've made some proposals on the wiki page.
I just want to add that converting to PDF and ePub should be a one
button process. I don't like the idea of using an other program to do
the final conversion like Calibre or Sigil or whatever.
Most crucial is that lyx-ebooks are accepted at the big shops. If you
are a professional writer you want to sell your ebooks via Amazon
(Kindle Direct Publishing), Google and Apple. KDP converts epubs to
their proprietary format without loss of formatting, but sometimes they
reject a file.
A tool to validate epubs is epubcheck. LyX-ePubs should validate without
errors.
I am glad to hear that this is an GSOC project. I wish you the best
possible success. Thanks for your work!
juh
> Discussion on the list is welcome. We have also set up a wiki page here:
> http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/XHTMLePub
> to collect ideas.
>
> Richard Heck
>
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