Re: EPUB woes

[Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>]

On 11/16/2013 12:37 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, Bill Meahan wrote:
>
>> I would /expect/ to get a valid EPUB file, or so I'm lead to believe.
>>
>
> 1. Wait until the EPUB readers catch up. It took almost 10-15 years 
> for the browsers to catch up with the HTML standards, and I don't have 
> much hope for EPUB readers here. Last I checked, none of them 
> supported even MATHML-2.
>
> 2. Write a script (either using xmlproc, or using you favorite XML 
> parser in your favorite language) that converts the XML generated by 
> ConTeXt into a "standard" XHTML file. This is the easiest and the 
> least time consuming alternative.
>
> 3. Modify the way in which ConTeXt generates the XML files. Ideally, I 
> should be able to write something like
>
> ~~~
> \setupparagraph[tag=p, class=default]
> ~~~
>
> to tell context that \startparagraph ... \stopparagraph should 
> translate to `<p class="default"> ... </p>". Last I checked the code 
> that generates the XML file, there was no easy way to change the tags 
> and classes.
>
> I hope that the above description clarifies the situation.
>
> Aditya

Thanks for the clarification.

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