-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear list,
never write an advocacy article if you are unsure whether people should really change their system. ;-) As self publishing gets mote and more popular by using tools like Kindle Direct Publishing for ebooks and Createspace for printed books, people will look for tools that boost their productivity and make multi channel publishing possible. I published a couple of ebooks (but only one made with Sphinx) and more recently I published a book as ebook and printed book. Multi channel publishing is what Sphinx was built for, so I should have used Sphinx for this task, but I used two different programs and two different sources. This is akward, but I had to use Scrivener for ebook production and LaTeX for print production. Scrivener is a creative writing tool. It has many output formats, including a perfect ePub format. The ePub output of Sphinx is not perfect. And it is not easy to customize the latex output if you need a special format. There is a solution for the ebook problem when you use the fork of Roland Meister (https://bitbucket.org/rolmei/sphinx-epub) which renders epub much better than stable Sphinx. You can see the result in my Plone user guide (http://www.hasecke.com/plone-benutzerhandbuch/4.2/) Now my question: ================ Does anybody uses the document class scrbook with Sphinx or a very customized LaTeX format? I would be happy to look into some example conf.py files with heavy customization to learn how to tweak it. In spite of these drawbacks I wrote a little advocacy article about Sphinx, because I think that Sphinx could become a really good multi channel publishing tool. http://www.hasecke.eu/Members/juh/sphinx-a-tool-for-self-publisher But I doubt whether fiction writer without technical background should use it now. ;-) Cheers! juh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEzUvMACgkQPUzUEFbILMSvQwCggxzRh3XPDUrymKizSl6uL3IB DMkAnA55e8ZwS46Czn1iQlLPxyBjJ9FA =29kv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
