Re: Ebooks with ConTeXt?

[Denis Maier <denis.maier.lists@mailbox.org>]

>> Sorry, no info concerning ConTeXT.
>>
>> You don't have to use proprietary tools. An easy way to create ebooks
>> from Markdown files (or other sources) is Pandoc. https://pandoc.org/
>>
>> I produce all of my ebooks in this way. In most cases they validate
>> without errors. If there are some errors though I use Calibre to fix
>> them manually.
> Thanks, I didn't think of Pandoc, I'll give it a try. In the past,
> I have tried to create some simple content (slides) with Markdown, but
> my conclusion was that if you know TeX, it doesn't make sense to use
> Markdown :)
>
> Perhaps this is a silly question (excuse my ignorance about the topic):
> what if you want to add some stylistic touches to your ebooks, such as
> initials? Or Non-breaking spaces? How about adding, say, a text box with
> a different background and a smaller font?
>
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>
> Or fine control page numbering, headers, footnotes, ligatures, or the
> spacing between paragraphs, or center a separator as above? Do you need
> to modify the generated CSS for that, or would ConTeXt (or Pandoc)
> allow you to take care of (some of) those things?
>
> Nicola

For Pandoc: Some things can be tweaked with pandoc, but for anything 
that is a bit more advanced you'll probably need a custom CSS. For 
special content you can use spans and divs. In your custom CSS you can 
define how those elements should be rendered. Sounds pretty similar to 
what Hans wrote in his response. Probably the main questions are if you 
prefer to work with pandoc markdown or with ConTeXt sources, and if you 
need additional output formats.

Denis
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