Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > Last time I looked, elyxer did pretty much the same sort of thing, but had > footnotes styled with things like "float: right;", rather than with the > appearing and disappearing act they do in LyX. But the real issue, as we > discussed b

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/12/2011 01:10 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple of

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday, September 12, 2011 01:10:07 PM Rob Oakes wrote: > > Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting > > with LyX's internal XHTML export. > > Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a > fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePu

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Rob Oakes
> Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with > LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple of sticking points that aren't quite as

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-11 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-11, Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/11/2011 03:14 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >> The man page shows the --export option but fails to list all the >> possible values for fmt. I'd like to see that list added to the man >> page. > Impossible, since what formats are available depends upon what > con

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-11 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/11/2011 03:14 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > What advantage would LyX's internal XHTML export have over eLyXer? > One is that LyX's XHTML and CSS output can be customized through layout files, the way you'd customize anything else. Indeed, if you define a new paragraph style, LyX will, by default

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 09:53:08 AM Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/10/2011 07:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Just speaking for myself, I think LyX is the best ePub authoring > > environment imaginable because you want your ePub formatting > > absolutely uniform, entirely styles-based, with no on

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/10/2011 07:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Just speaking for myself, I think LyX is the best ePub authoring > environment imaginable because you want your ePub formatting > absolutely uniform, entirely styles-based, with no one-off > manipulations or fingerpainting. And it just so happens tha

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 01:21:02 AM Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Progress on the LyX->eBook front! > > My book is written in LyX (lastchance.lyx), and I converted it to > ePub. Here's how. [clip] > Now I use the elyxer program (I believe it's available on Windows > also) to convert m

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Fernandez
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > Progress on the LyX->eBook front! > I open it in Okular and it's justified correctly, but there are obvious > mistakes, including bullet lists that have lots of blank bullets > tacked on the end. I installed Mozilla's epubreader plugin, and the

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Progress on the LyX->eBook front! My book is written in LyX (lastchance.lyx), and I converted it to ePub. Here's how. Originally the directory has only a couple outlines and my LyX file, a 6400 word book, shown in this directory listing displayed by Linux's ls command: slitt@mydesk:/