Re: epub

From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: epub
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:38:38 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1202161436200.32152@qrpragenyvmrq> (raw)
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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.

> <?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.

Aditya

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