Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Kindle version ....

2011-04-26 Thread Barry Drake
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 10:17 -0500, Kevin Godby wrote: > You can download all our .tex files from the lp:ubuntu-manual/maverick > repository. Let me know how your tests go. Thanks for that. I got the source and can get the .pdf to build OK using the makefile provided. The next stage is going to

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Kindle version ....

2011-04-26 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Barry. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Barry Drake wrote: > I've got it and tried it.  It generates good html.  When converting from > html to mobi, Calibre sometimes gets images in the wrong place.  If it's > posssible for me to get the LaTex source for the manual from somewhere, > I can

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Kindle version ....

2011-04-26 Thread Barry Drake
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 20:23 +0300, Vytautas Bačiulis wrote: > It's possible to generate HTML instead of PDF, however I can't remember > which LaTex package does that. I've got it and tried it. It generates good html. When converting from html to mobi, Calibre sometimes gets images in the wron

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Kindle version ....

2011-04-23 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Kevin. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Kevin Neely wrote: > TeX4HT / htlatex is what you want.  You can also convert to open office > format with the following. > > htlatex $1 "xhtml,ooffice" "ooffice/! -cmozhtf" "-coo -cvalidate" > > which I use quite a bit to generate odt from my latex

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Kindle version ....

2011-04-23 Thread Kevin Neely
On 04/23/2011 10:23 AM, Vytautas Bačiulis wrote: > > It's possible to generate HTML instead of PDF, however I can't > remember which LaTex package does that. TeX4HT / htlatex is what you want. You can also convert to open office format with the following. htlatex $1 "xhtml,ooffice" "ooffice/! -

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Kindle version ....

2011-04-23 Thread Vytautas Bačiulis
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:04:58 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 10:07 -0500, Rick Fosburgh wrote: I've sent a note over to Kevin, our latex guru. We use a make file to build the main.pdf. Perhaps there are some options that could be tweaked for a 'make kindle' within the make f

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Kindle version ....

2011-04-23 Thread Barry Drake
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 10:07 -0500, Rick Fosburgh wrote: > I've sent a note over to Kevin, our latex guru. We use a make file to > build the main.pdf. Perhaps there are some options that could be > tweaked for a 'make kindle' within the make for a usable kindle.pdf? There's a lot of stuff out th

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Kindle version ....

2011-04-23 Thread Chris Woollard
Barry, At the moment the Ubuntu manual source is Latex. This is great for creating pdf's, but at the moment doesn't work so well with creating other book formats. We are looking at creating the manual in other formats (pub, mobi etc), but for the moment, we are just trying to get the maverick edi

[Ubuntu-manual] Kindle version ....

2011-04-23 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there I would like to have a Kindle version of the manual. The PDF when converted is messy and barely useable. I'd be happy to offer a Kindle version and to maintain it when it is updated to Natty. To do this, I would need a non-pdf version. I have updated and am maintaining Cassidy Ja