brian m. carlson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 04:49:43PM -0500, Timothy Groves wrote: >> Has anyone come up with filters, macros, etc., to produce an ePub >> file from groff source? > > Since ePub is basically XHTML in a zip file, you could create one with > -Txhtml. The problem with using groff here is that the text has to be > reflowable, and groff doesn't do that very well.
Actually, if you tailor your document to produce HTML, and create some post-processing filters, you can get usable output from groff. Using HTML Tidy helps a lot. I haven't tried creating ePub, but I probably ought to. If you're trying to produce a standard novel, it should be relatively easy since there's not a lot of formatting involved. Technical documents with lots of tables and illustrations would require some work and maybe some hand-tweaking. -- Larry
