From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/54992 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: TeX as an eBook engine? Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:17:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <60DB6B0E-C759-43E0-A13F-54AB7D0D5560@wideopenwest.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259828262 25119 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2009 08:17:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:17:42 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Dec 03 09:17:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NG6sY-0001xj-V5 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:17:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A9CC9CBE; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:14:20 +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 2hcN5ixp11uQ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:14:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC79C9CB6; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:14:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E56CFC9CB6 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:14:13 +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 mQYEk0KpcDwU for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:14:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from turan.fiee.net (lvps87-230-77-106.dedicated.hosteurope.de [87.230.77.106]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC8BC9CA2 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:14:10 +0100 (CET) X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender Original-Received: from turan.fiee.net (lvps87-230-77-106.dedicated.hosteurope.de [127.0.0.1]) by turan.fiee.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A586F17BC02C2 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:17:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.128.9.9] (59-252.77-83.cust.bluewin.ch [83.77.252.59]) by turan.fiee.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:17:23 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:54992 Archived-At: Am 2009-12-02 um 18:03 schrieb Otared Kavian: > For those on the list who didn't see this thread on XeTeX mailing > list: > How about ConTeXt and mkiv? Hm, your subject is a bit misleading - I thought you wanted to *create eBooks* using TeX. That would be much more useful... Even if some eBook devices can display PDF, AFAIK we still cannot create the re-flowable variant (needs a XML stream, see other discussions about tagged PDF or PDF/X). In one of the latest c't (German computer magazine) there was a nice article on creating eBooks in Epub format (HTML based). Even if I don't intend to buy an eBook device, it made me think again about using another input language than TeX to create HTML, ConTeXt and whatever from one source. Knut Lickert recently gave a talk on "Creole for LaTeX" (Creole is an unified Wiki markup syntax), I'm still planning to use ReStructuredText (Python's documentation syntax) - note to self: finally adapt that LaTeX output filter to ConTeXt! Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________