Re: Org.texi (the Org Manual) in ePub format

[Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez]

Perry Smith writes:

> For Apple losers like me, ePub is so much nicer than PDFs in Apple
Books.  All the features come to life such as book marks, notes,
highlighting, etc.  And they are saved.  Almost like we rocketed into 1990.

You don't have to be an Apple loser to think ePub is nice. There are ePub
reader programs in Linux which allow all you say :-)
And yes, is convenient for almost anything (except printing).
And yes, you can have your ebook reader on the side, almost as you had the
printed programming manuals in times passed.

To get from texinfo to ePub, the easiest way is, I guess, to converto to
split (x)HTML files, pack the result in a 'sofisticated' ZIP
file,(sophisticated in the sense that you have to add a couple more XML
files to it) and rename it to .epub

Wouldn't be too difficult to come up with a smallish program to do that...

Best, /PA

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Org.texi (the Org Manual) in ePub format

[Perry Smith]

I joined this list about a month ago to ask how I could get the manual in ePub 
format but I also started searching.  Long story short, I joined the TexInfo 
Help mailing list and submitted a question[1] (which also references two other 
threads if you are interested).

The net net net is you may pick up the Org manual in ePub format here [2].  As 
soon as the new modifications to TexInfo are pushed out, it is drop dead easy 
to produce ePub from the texi file.

For Apple losers like me, ePub is so much nicer than PDFs in Apple Books.  All 
the features come to life such as book marks, notes, highlighting, etc.  And 
they are saved.  Almost like we rocketed into 1990.

Perhaps now that it is so easy thanks to the wonderful people supporting 
TexInfo, ePub will become a more common format that is produced and maintained 
by open source groups.

I hope to eventually learn how to use Org mode to do time tracking of my 
various software projects.  It looks very promising.

Take care,
Perry
p.s. if you are curious, please visit my photography web site [3]

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-TexInfo/2022-06/msg2.html 

[2] http://why-not-photography.com/drop/org.epub 

[3] http://why-not-photography.com 



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