From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Bugs in XML export (for ePub)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:52:40 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1F77919E-7C43-4C9D-A52A-8F9D4358CAF9@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAANrE7p+7u=mAr9CF4n39hobeRpTc6UyBdVURY9AF5VgPF3wLA@mail.gmail.com>
Am 2014-03-11 um 12:42 schrieb Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>:
> In practice, ConTeXt cannot actually produce ePub content of any
> sufficient complexity that an ePub reader (such as Kindle) can read. I
> abandoned that development line a while ago. That said, ConTeXt is
> orders of magnitude easier to work with than LaTeX (for me) and has an
> architecture that holds a promising future.
> ...
> Unless anyone says otherwise (or there have been momentous
> improvements in this area), I would recommend that you do not use
> ConTeXt to create ePub files. While technically it can produce an ePub
> archive, you will waste countless hours hitting wall after wall.
I was thinking about starting with markdown or the like, but I *want* to use ConTeXt, and if it should be able to produce ePub, then I want it to succeed.
And maybe I can get on Hans’ and Wolfgang’s nerves enough to make it possible ;-)
Greetlings, Hraban
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-11 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-11 5:04 Henning Hraban Ramm
2014-03-11 6:42 ` Thangalin
2014-03-11 7:52 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2014-03-11 17:54 ` Thangalin
2014-03-12 3:24 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2014-03-12 4:49 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2014-03-11 8:09 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2014-03-11 9:33 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-03-12 5:17 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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