On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 11:03:13PM -0700, Ryan Culpepper wrote: > On 01/04/2012 09:51 PM, John Clements wrote: > >Has anyone taken a look at generating ePub or mobi documents directly > >from scribble? > > > >As the owner of a Kindle, I can see that pdf/dvi/ps is terrible for > >these kind of on-the-fly reformatting systems. HTML is better, but > >trying to convert the existing HTML for HtDP 2e (I haven't tried > >removing the left contents bar) produces not-great output. I took a > >look for systems that generate ePub and/or mobi from TeX, and didn't > >get a lot of useful hits, which I'm guessing is due to the fact that > >TeX--like pdf etc--is fundamentally about providing control over the > >structure of a page, and not about producing reflow-able output. Has > >anyone taken a look at the cost and/or advantages of generating ePub > >or mobi documents directly from scribble? > > Did you see my email on this earlier today? (The thread was > "Documentation in PDF/PS format".) > > I think the most reasonable path is to use "scribble --html" with > custom CSS files that make the formatting friendlier for book > readers, then to pass it through Calibre's ebook-convert utility. It > would probably make sense to add some minor hooks to the scribble > html renderer so it can mark the table of contents and chapter > breaks appropriately, but that's all that comes to mind.
There are constraints as to what html is OK in an epub. Check the wikipedia epub page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB#cite_note-opf2.0.1_spec-13) for links to the various standards, and a bit of a guide which is which. Also, there's an epub validator at http://www.threepress.org/document/epub-validate/ so you can check if you've done it right. I find its error messages a bit cryptic, though maybe that's becaus I haven't reaad the entire standard. -- hendrik ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
