From: Nicola <nvitacolonna@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Ebooks with ConTeXt?
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:50:00 -0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qsost8$1qa7$3@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c790af7d-c958-cd81-a832-28e92a6f482f@xs4all.nl>
On 2019-12-10, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 12/9/2019 10:13 PM, Nicola wrote:
>> What is the current status of epub support in ConTeXt?
>>
>> I have never followed ConTeXt's development on the XML front too
>> closely, but recently I have been asked to help format a text-only
>> manuscript for publishing on platforms such as Kindle or Apple Books
>> Store. Can ConTeXt be used (or perhaps even recommended) for that? Or
>> would I have better luck with the proprietary tools (Kindle Create,
>> iBooks Author)?
> context has an xml export (a few variants) and one can start from that
> ... in the end it all boils down to some css (depends on the book i
> guess) and tagged content (one can use the divs and spans output or
> transform the xml to whatever wanted) ... for more complex setups i
> think there are no generic solutions (unless all books should look
> alike)
Ok, I imagined that things were like that, but I wasn't sure. Thanks for
confirming my impression.
Nicola
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-09 21:13 Nicola
2019-12-10 7:05 ` Jan U. Hasecke
2019-12-10 7:50 ` Nicola
2019-12-10 15:53 ` Denis Maier
2019-12-10 16:50 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-12-10 19:38 ` Nicola
2019-12-11 6:22 ` Jan U. Hasecke
2019-12-11 6:10 ` Jan U. Hasecke
2019-12-11 9:01 ` Hans Hagen
2019-12-11 15:17 ` Rik Kabel
2019-12-11 15:45 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-12-11 17:53 ` Rik Kabel
2019-12-10 8:40 ` Hans Hagen
2019-12-10 19:50 ` Nicola [this message]
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