From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/79241 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Meahan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Epub woes Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:48:30 -0500 Message-ID: <50A58D5E.5000701@meahan.net> References: <50A53B55.3010204@meahan.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353026931 12478 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2012 00:48:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:48:51 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 16 01:49:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TZA78-00049m-2j for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:48:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB54910339; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:48:47 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id IAEfZxPjv56p; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:48:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D238102D9; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:48:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849EE102D9 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:48:44 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id bqCe4QjMuwHU for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:48:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter5-til.mf.surf.net (filter5-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.221]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE87F102D2 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:48:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail14c40.carrierzone.com (mail14c40.carrierzone.com [209.235.156.154]) by filter5-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id qAG0gP4R027696 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:42:27 +0100 X-Authenticated-User: subscribed_lists.meahan.net Original-Received: from [192.168.1.151] (d27-96-221-12.nap.wideopenwest.com [96.27.12.221]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail14c40.carrierzone.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id qAG0mXUF009958 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:48:35 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=1.1 cv=34y+DsCRwvFvHU2dM3NtaVME4gtrseI92/tu9TMZtOU= c=1 sm=1 a=dg3hAEBnQ7UA:10 a=Olzf91-8vUEA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=gQI4EhXLwm578WU9SoM/2Q==:17 a=BfkYzTlDC1ohu8twDxgA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=gQI4EhXLwm578WU9SoM/2Q==:117 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020206.50A58D63.00BC, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.003 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=209.235.156.154; country=US; region=FL; city=Fort Lauderdale; postalcode=33301; latitude=26.1209; longitude=-80.1273; metrocode=528; areacode=954; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=26.1209,-80.1273&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0WIo0Gpzc - d52c9e4039db - 20121116 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.221 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:79241 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________