On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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> Am 16.02.2012 um 16:19 schrieb Jörg Hagmann:
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>> This discussion was continued privately (my mistake). A summary:
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>> Thanks for the file, Luigi -- getting closer. Two problems left:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Isn’t the problem with context pub’s the format of the xhtml file, when I compile this example:
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> \setupbackend[export=yes,xhtml=yes]
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> \starttext
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> \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
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> \stoptext
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> I get a xhtml file with the following content (I removed the comments):
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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