Re: Epub format Was: Re: Context to epub: itemize

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 2/18/2015 3:10 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
> Hi Hraban,
>
> Good to know. I will investigate at another time and give feed back.
> I am in the middle of moving, so I do not have much time.
>
> We ought to think of making a export specific to epub in the long run!

The export is not really geared at that, as it's a representation of the 
rendering (although structured). The additional html output can be used 
for previewing and to what extend it's okay depends on the intended use.

Normally one starts from a neutral source (xml or tex) and then produces 
different output. So, for specific epub (or whatever) one can either 
start with the original code (xml) or manipulate what comes out of the 
export. The export is kind of standard so one can build all kind of 
scripts to convert it. There is no universal epub (rendering) solution, 
just as there is no universal pdf layout.

Of course the idea is that the default export is good enough for simple 
documents. What more gets provided depends on needs (and currently at 
least I have no need for epub other than a dedicated pdf suitable for 
displays).

Hans


> regards
> 	Keith.
>> Am 18.02.2015 um 09:14 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>:
>>
>>
>> Am 2015-02-18 um 04:37 schrieb Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Context outputs three varants: regular xml, xhtml, and stupified xhtml with div/class tagging. The last one is supposed to work on all devices as it doesn't demands anything beyond css.
>>>
>>> The XML generated by ConTeXt is very well structured. So, an option is to simply provide XLST stylesheets that transform ConTeXT-XML to XHTML/HTML5/whatever.
>>>
>>> Such XLST transformation will be better than have ConTeXt chase a moving target.
>>
>> See e.g. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Epub_Sample
>>
>> I’ll try to update the pages about ConTeXt’s current export soon, since I have a new book in the pipeline.
>>
>> Greetlings, Hraban
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