Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

2019-11-10 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> pandoc is a good idea, but the texinfo file causes error messages. I > did > the following, which worked well: > > makeinfo --html --no-split guix-cookbook.texi > pandoc guix-cookbook.html -o guix-cookbook.epub Thank you :-) Regards, RG. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

2019-11-10 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 11:35:04AM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Or maybe Pandoc https://pandoc.org/epub.html using directly the texinfo file. pandoc is a good idea, but the texinfo file causes error messages. I did the following, which worked well: makeinfo --html --no-split guix-cookbook.texi

Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

2019-11-06 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> Or maybe Pandoc https://pandoc.org/epub.html using directly the > texinfo file. Thanks! I will try this method. Regards, RG. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

2019-11-06 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 11:26, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > > Did you try converting the HTML version to EPUB? Calibre does that > > as > > well. EPUB is little more than a packaging convention for a subset > > of > > HTML, so this conversion is easier than starting from PDF. > > Nice. I have no

Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

2019-11-06 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> Did you try converting the HTML version to EPUB? Calibre does that > as > well. EPUB is little more than a packaging convention for a subset > of > HTML, so this conversion is easier than starting from PDF. Nice. I have not used HTML in calibre before. Should I import as HTML URL or should I i

Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

2019-11-06 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Raghav, I tried converting the PDF to EPUB via calibre and the result was awful. Formatting got messed up. So I thought it would be better if the epub was generated directly from source? Did you try converting the HTML version to EPUB? Calibre does that as well. EPUB is little more than a

REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

2019-11-06 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! Would it be possible to make the 'GNU Guix Reference Manual', available in 'EPUB' format, at the web page guix.gnu.org/manual/? It would be nice to read the manual from an e-reader. I tried converting the PDF to EPUB via calibre and the result was awful. Formatting got messed up. So I