Re: epub

From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: epub
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:08:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E064F567-E4C4-418C-960D-67A9C768BE99@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1202161436200.32152@qrpragenyvmrq>

Am 16.02.2012 um 20:38 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:

> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Am 16.02.2012 um 16:19 schrieb Jörg Hagmann:
>> 
>>> This discussion was continued privately (my mistake). A summary:
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the file, Luigi -- getting closer. Two problems left:
>>> 
>>> 1. I was using Calibre. Maybe I simply don't know how to use that programme. Whereas a free epub book downloaded from the net opens as it should, the files generated by myself and by you just show the unformatted text. With Firefox it works.
>>> 
>>> 2. In Firefox: My version lacks the images; in fact, the figures showing up in the OPS directory after the mtxrun have zero KB. But it is ok for me to copy them there manually.
>> 
>> Isn’t the problem with context pub’s the format of the xhtml file, when I compile this example:
>> 
>> \setupbackend[export=yes,xhtml=yes]
>> 
>> \starttext
>> 
>> \startparagraph
>> The Earth, as a habitat for animal life, is in old age and
>> has a fatal illness. Several, in fact. It would be happening
>> whether humans had ever evolved or not. But our presence is
>> like the effect of an old|-|age patient who smokes many packs
>> of cigarettes per day – and we humans are the cigarettes.
>> \stopparagraph
>> 
>> \stoptext
>> 
>> I get a xhtml file with the following content (I removed the comments):
>> 
>> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?>
>> 
>> <document xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" version="0.30" language="en" date="Thu Feb 16 20:00:31 2012" file="test" context="2012.02.16 17:54" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>> <paragraph>The Earth, as a habitat for animal life, is in old age and has a fatal illness. Several, in fact. It would be happening whether humans had ever evolved or not. But our presence is like the effect of an old-age patient who smokes many packs of cigarettes per day – and we humans are the cigarettes.</paragraph>
>> </document>
>> 
>> but the produced epub file doesn’t work on my ereader. After I changed the tags of the file to this:
> 
> You also need to add the appropriate css file (there is an example css file in $TEXMF/tex/context/base IIRC). Any epub reader that understands xml+css will be able to read the file.

I know the example file but I forgot to add it.

>> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?>
>> 
>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>> <body>
>>   <p>The Earth, as a habitat for animal life, is in old age and has a fatal illness. Several, in fact. It would be happening whether humans had ever evolved or not. But our presence is like the effect of an old-age patient who smokes many packs of cigarettes per day – and we humans are the cigarettes.</p>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>> 
>> I got now a epub file which renders on my ereader without problems.
> 
> I do agree if the export tags were configurable. Something similar to multi-lingual interface, but for output rather than input.

You mean like labeltexts :)

Wolfgang
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