From: Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Epub woes
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:48:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A58D5E.5000701@meahan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1211151908510.1091@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On 11/15/2012 07:13 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
> Have you considered using pandoc to generate epub?
>
> If your text is relatively simple (no multiline math, no fancy image
> scaling, no complicated tables, etc.), then Markdown is a reasonable
> input format. You can use pandoc to translate the text to multiple
> output formats (including ConTeXt).
>
> In general, I have found pandoc's XHTML export to be more predictable
> than that of ConTeXt. I have used pandoc's epub export only for short
> articles, but from what I remember, it does handle cover images and
> toc correctly.
>
> Aditya
> __
Nice idea Aditya but in this particular case it won't suffice.
I'm working on a rather long novel, not a technical document, and my
/primary/ target electronic format is PDF. That PDF can be distributed
electronically or submitted directly to a printer. In the current
market, however, so many people want to read books on their smartphone,
dedicated ebook reader or tablet an author really limits their market if
they don't distribute an ebook version.
Of course, the two primary ebook formats (in terms of market) are epub
and Kindle which is easy to generate from an epub. Sticking to ConTeXt
allows me to generate PDF, Process PDF and epub from a single source. I
can easily touch up the epub in Sigil if I need to.
For this kind of "document," typography and excellent typesetting are
extremely important (in the printed/PDF version, anyway). ConTeXt gives
me that.
I'll keep pandoc in mind for some other documents, though. Thanks for
the lead.
--
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan USA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-16 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-15 18:58 Bill Meahan
2012-11-15 19:24 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-11-15 20:20 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-15 23:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2012-11-16 0:13 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-11-16 0:48 ` Bill Meahan [this message]
2012-11-16 4:17 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-11-16 15:41 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-16 16:36 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-11-16 6:49 ` Andy Thomas
2012-11-16 7:13 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-16 7:18 ` Andy Thomas
2012-11-16 23:18 ` Zenlima
2012-11-16 23:21 ` Zenlima
2012-11-16 23:41 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-17 7:08 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-17 9:18 ` Alan BRASLAU
2012-11-17 16:48 ` Bill Meahan
2012-11-17 17:24 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-16 10:21 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-16 15:16 EPUB woes Bill Meahan
2013-11-16 16:00 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-16 16:51 ` Bill Meahan
2013-11-16 17:37 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-11-16 18:15 ` Bill Meahan
2013-11-18 9:00 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-18 12:21 ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-18 15:11 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-18 15:33 ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-18 18:12 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-19 21:39 ` Mica Semrick
2013-11-20 9:39 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-20 13:59 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-11-20 18:11 ` Bill Meahan
2013-11-20 19:43 ` Jan Tosovsky
2013-11-20 19:12 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-18 8:05 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-16 16:07 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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