Re: Epub woes

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Bill Meahan wrote:

> On 11/15/2012 07:13 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> 
>> Have you considered using pandoc to generate epub?
>> 
>> If your text is relatively simple (no multiline math, no fancy image 
>> scaling, no complicated tables, etc.), then Markdown is a reasonable input 
>> format. You can use pandoc to translate the text to multiple output formats 
>> (including ConTeXt).
>> 
>> In general, I have found pandoc's XHTML export to be more predictable than 
>> that of ConTeXt. I have used pandoc's epub export only for short articles, 
>> but from what I remember, it does handle cover images and toc correctly.
>> 
>> Aditya
>> __
> Nice idea Aditya but in this particular case it won't suffice.
>
> I'm working on a rather long novel, not a technical document, and my 
> /primary/ target electronic format is PDF. That PDF can be distributed 
> electronically or submitted directly to a printer. In the current market, 
> however, so many people want to read books on their smartphone, dedicated 
> ebook reader or tablet an author really limits their market if they don't 
> distribute an ebook version.
>
> Of course, the two primary ebook formats (in terms of market) are epub and 
> Kindle which is easy to generate from an epub. Sticking to ConTeXt allows me 
> to generate PDF, Process PDF and epub from a single source. I can easily 
> touch up the epub in Sigil if I need to.
>
> For this kind of "document," typography and excellent typesetting are 
> extremely important (in the printed/PDF version, anyway). ConTeXt gives me 
> that.

Pandoc does generate ConTeXt output as well, which you can then process 
the usual way to generate pdf.

The advantage of pandoc is that **in addition** to latex/context output, 
you can generate docbook/epub/html/doc/troff/ and other output formats as 
well.

Aditya
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