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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: EPUB XHTML Format
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 14:20:30 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1309051414280.29678@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00b501ceaa63$61805e50$24811af0$@tosovsky@email.cz>

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, honyk wrote:

> On 2013-09-04 Thangalin wrote:
>>
>> What needs to happen to take a minimal ConTeXt file (such as the
>> attached) to produce a minimum viable EPUB that:
>>
> It is always difficult to parse and further process not well structured
> plain text without advanced semantics. Garbage in, garbage out.

The typical ConTeXt document has a lot of structure, and the XML export 
generates a well structured XML output. That can be directly used in most 
modern browsers that handle XML+CSS well. However, most (all?) EPUB 
readers don't. So, the question is asking if instead ConTeXt could 
generate a XHTML

> If you need both EPUB and PDF, start with a semantically rich XML
> vocabulary, e.g. DocBook. In this case you can relatively easy transfrom
> (XSLT) input data into almost any format. These basic outputs like EPUB or
> PDF (via XSL-FO) you can get out-of-the-box. The Context output can be
> generated using dbcontext: http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/
>
> In sum, use XML as your primary source and from it derive everything else.

I haven't used XML-only toolchains. Is it possible to handle:

- Automatic section numbering taking care of different conversions.
- Automatic index generation and sorting
- Inserting hyphenation points at the approriate place in the generated 
ouput (so that the browser can effectively rely on TeX's hyphenation 
algorithm to do linebreaking).
- Convert TeX math to MathML.

The current ConTeXT XML source can translate a well formed ConTeXt 
document into a XML document with the above features.

Aditya
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-05 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-04  1:19 Thangalin
2013-09-04  9:20 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-04 17:55   ` Thangalin
2013-09-05 13:55     ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-12 14:32       ` Alan BRASLAU
2013-09-05 16:38   ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-05 16:57     ` Thangalin
2013-09-05 17:57       ` Khaled Hosny
2013-09-05 18:22         ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-05 17:22     ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-05 18:21       ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-05 18:11 ` honyk
     [not found] ` <00b501ceaa63$61805e50$24811af0$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2013-09-05 18:20   ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2013-09-05 18:24     ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-05 19:54       ` Mica Semrick
2013-09-05 21:15       ` Michael Hallgren
2013-09-05 22:00     ` Thangalin
2013-09-06 16:09       ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-06 16:36       ` Mica Semrick
2013-09-06 20:20         ` Thangalin
2013-09-06 21:22           ` Thangalin
2013-09-06 21:27             ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-07 12:07           ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-07 18:31             ` Thangalin

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