Re: Epub woes

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Bill Meahan wrote:

> I tried to generate an epub document using ConTeXt following the recipe on 
> the wiki. Didn't work. So, I tried running the export-example.tex file that 
> comes with the distribution, unmodified. Same bad results.
>
>    Cover is not generated
>    TOC is not generated (though it is noted this might be the state of the 
> export)
>    Sectioning doesn't happen.
>    Paragraphing doesn't happen.
>    The resultant epub file cannot even be opened with FBReader.
>
> Importing the epub into Sigil shows one big blob of text, with only the 
> between word spacing that's present in the source file. The \quotation{} 
> markup did get turned into quotation marks, chapter numbers were generated 
> and the rest of the markup was stripped out.
>
> Same behavior with both the TeXLive 2012 version of ConTeXt and a quite 
> recent beta.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

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
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