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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: EPUB woes
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:21:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528A063A.10203@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A7D59E14-8C1A-47A0-9CAF-8299F8400D44@uni-trier.de>

On 11/18/2013 10:00 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:

> 	2) Now, what a EPub-READER must implement to handle is very
> 	     little. There are HARDLY ANY provisions that a certified EPuB-READER has
>               to implement any particular engine or features therein to display/render
> 	     the information contain in the EPub-file/wrapper.

right, and I'm not going to waste time on it till i have a decent ebook 
reader that behaves well

>> 3. Modify the way in which ConTeXt generates the XML files. Ideally, I should be able to write something like
> 	Would be nice if there where commands in ConTeXt or a module for defining what should go into the CSS and a
> 	mode "epub" where the ConTeXt commands are converted to suitible HTML5 structures that are suitiable for
> 	most ereaders.
> 		Features:
>                         1) margins in percentages
>                         2) font sizes based on em
> 	               3) a new file for every chapter optional for sections user defined
> 	Just a few. Lots more can be found in any decent documentation on writing ebooks.

context outputs xml and as a bonus provides a css too ... one can always 
convert that xml to his/her ebooks liking .. maybe at some point the 
mtx-epub script will do that

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-18 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-16 15:16 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 [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-11-15 18:58 Epub woes 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
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

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