Re: Now that I have something working on mkiv, I'd like to try ePUB

[Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>]

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On 18 Mar 2015, at 08:46, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 3/18/2015 7:34 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>> On 18 Mar 2015, at 02:14, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl
>> <mailto:pragma@wxs.nl>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/17/2015 10:33 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>>>> On 17 Mar 2015, at 16:51, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl
>>>> <mailto:pragma@wxs.nl>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 3/17/2015 3:41 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>>>>>> Nobody?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 15 Mar 2015, at 22:12, Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda@rna.nl
>>>>>> <mailto:Gerben.Wierda@rna.nl>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Now that I have my book project basically running on mkiv (the
>>>>>>> layout probably has a few problems left, the main one currently
>>>>>>> being extra whitespace after a chapter heading  compared to mkii),
>>>>>>> I’d like to try producing ePUB from it.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ConTeXtgarden says I have to add a backend and points me to the
>>>>>>> info on the standard project structure (which I use), but there I
>>>>>>> don’t find anything about a backend. The extended example says
>>>>>>> that starting january 2015, things have changed with ePUB, which
>>>>>>> probably also applies to me as I only recently started with a
>>>>>>> fresh download of a current ConTeXt mkiv.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So, can someone tell me what I need to do to get a basic ePUB output?
>>>>> 
>>>>> \setupbackend
>>>>> [export=yes]
>>>>> 
>>>>> more on wiki
>>>> 
>>>> The wiki doesn’t really help. Am I supposed to create another product
>>>> file in …/products?
>>> 
>>> no, just enable it ... export files end up in a subpath
>> 
>> I did add this to the environment file and tried to create an ePub for
>> the whole book and for an individual chapter, but no success yet:
>> 
>> luna-wifi:chapters gerben$ (. /usr/local/src/ConTeXt/tex/setuptex &&
>> mtxrun --script epub --make c_loosely.specification)
>> Setting "/usr/local/src/ConTeXt/tex" as ConTeXt root.
>> 
>> mtx-epub        | unknown specificaton file
>> 'c_loosely.specification-export/c_loosely.specification-pub' for
>> 'c_loosely.specification'
>> luna-wifi:chapters gerben$ (. /usr/local/src/ConTeXt/tex/setuptex &&
>> mtxrun --script epub --make prd_book.specification)
>> Setting "/usr/local/src/ConTeXt/tex" as ConTeXt root.
>> 
>> mtx-epub        | unknown specificaton file
>> 'prd_book.specification-export/prd_book.specification-pub' for
>> 'prd_book.specification'
>> 
>> 
>> What am I missing? What is a specification file?
> 
> you process the tex file as normal .. that will produce a specification file that will be used if you use mtxrun --script epub later (the call is mentioned at the end of a tex run that has the export enabled)

Ha, I’ve got my first ePUB!

(. /usr/local/src/ConTeXt/tex/setuptex && context --mode=editor  ../products/prd_book.tex)
(. /usr/local/src/ConTeXt/tex/setuptex && mtxrun --script epub --make "prd_book")

Now, it’s time to see how I can tweak the ePUB.

Things I would like to do:
- The quotes that now appear on the LHS page facing the first page of a chapter should instead appear on the top of the RHS new chapter page above the heading
- manage footnotes. Probably best is to have them at the end of the chapter when producing for ePub. Basically, I need to know what to do if the structure of my document differs between PDF and ePUB.
- manage the index (empty now)
- manage bibliographic references (empty now)
 And of course I need to look into CSS and stuff to create a nice ePUB

G

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> Hans
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