This is good news, Frederick, because you're right, flowing-text eBooks (as opposed to PDF eBooks) are gaining importance now. A few questions:
* Besides changing the doctype on the exported (X)html, what other tweaking did you have to do in Sigil? * Did you try to convert this to a Kindle book (using kindlegen), and if so, did it pass muster with the Kindle specifications? * In the future, do you anticipate that you'd change the book in LyX and then reconvert, or will you maintain one version in LyX and one in Sigil? * For images, did you just stick them in without floats? That would be my first thought in a book destined for both ePub and PDF. * Does your ePub have both a device table of contents and an HTML table of contents? Thanks, SteveT On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 05:16:37 +0530 Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to say a big thank you for this, Les, it works very well! > > With ebooks gaining in importance now, it would be great if Lyx added > on more capabilities on this front. To make a great too, better! > > Frederick Noronha > Goa, India > Founder and Editor > Goa,1556* > > * Published over 70 books so far, nearly all set in LyX! See > http://goa1556.in > > > On 14 July 2014 04:30, Les Denham <lden...@hal-pc.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:08:47 +0530 > > Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا > > <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > * What is the easiest way to convert a Lyx file (with images) to > > > epub? > > > * How can one ensure this will be consistent with epub standards? > > > * Any site to test the resultant epub? > > > * Can Lyx developers help to develop some tools that make it easy > > > to create epub and other formats of ebooks? > > > > Frederick, > > > > I've done this for several books. From my experience the answer to > > your questions are: > > > > * Conversion > > 1. Export your file to LyXHTML > > 2. Using your favorite text editor (I use vi), delete the first > > line of the file (something like <?xml version="1.0" > > encoding="UTF-8"?>) and save as type HTML. > > 3. The file can now be imported into Sigil > > (http://web.sigil.googlecode.com/git/files/OEBPS/Text/introduction.html > > ), > > which saves files in epub format. > > > > * Epub standards > > Sigil includes the FlightCrew validator, and also a link to validate > > stylesheets with W3C. > > > > * Testing the epub > > I don't know of any site for testing, other than > > http://validator.idpf.org/, which as far as I know does exactly > > the same as the Sigil validator. The real problem is that no > > e-reader supports the standards completely and exactly, so you need > > to test your epub on several readers. I use Nook, Calibre and > > FBreader. > > > > * LyX development > > I'll leave this to developers. > > > > Without images, the conversion is straightforward, with the main > > problem being how to handle footnotes: as epub is reflowable, the > > concept of footnote does not exist, so you will have to decide how > > to handle them. Sigil gives you the tools to implement any solution > > you decide on, but it may involve a lot of detailed editing. > > > > Images complicate the conversion. Do you want small images in a > > fixed location in the text? That is fairly easy. So is putting all > > the images at the end of a chapter (or at the end of the book). But > > if you want clickable links to images, and a clickable link to > > return you to the page you were on, it can become very complicated, > > and involve a lot of hand editing. But again, Sigil has all the > > tools you need for this. > > > > I hope this helps, > > > > Les > > >
