Re: Making ePub books

[Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com>]

On 11/12/11 18:07:48, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Debian Squeeze; org 7.7; emacs 23.2.1
> > 
> > I am back to trying to make ePub books from org articles/books. I
> am=20
> > working on a book which currently produces about 100 pages in
> LaTeX=20
> > export. It will be about 200 pages when finished.
> > 
> > ePub uses XHTML for the main content. So, I export the org file
> to=20
> > HTML. It verifies as a valid XHTML1.0 file at the w3c
> verification=20
> > site: http://validator.w3.org/
> > 
> > OK. Then wrap it up in the mess that is the ePub specification.
> It=20
> > actually reads OK in FBReader and in Iceweasel with the ePub add
> on,=20
> > BUT it does not validate. There are several problems, but most of
> the=20
> > errors involve the "name" attribute. For example:
> > 
> > <h2 id=3D"history"><a name=3D"sec-1" id=3D"sec-1"></a><span
> class=3D"sectio=
> > n-
> > number-2">1</span> History</h2>
> > 
> > ePub does not like the name in there. Wipe out all the name=3D"xxx"
> and=20
> > the problem goes away. Everything else still works.
> > 
> > I know that I can do a post export clean up of the XHTML file, but
> I=20
> > wonder if this is set in some variable that I cannot find.
> > 
> > And, as a general question, whay have both name=3D"sec-1" and
> id=3D"sec-1"=20
> > in the same element?
> > 
> > I would like to automate everything to go from org to ePub. It
> doesn't=20
> > seem too hard, but I'm a legal academic, not a programmer :-).
> Any=20
> > pointers appreciated.
> > 
> 
> Back when Avdi Green was working on his book, there was some
> discussion
> of this and Anthony Lander provided a pointer to 
> http://calibre-ebook.com/
> - see 
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/41826/focus=41849

Yes, Calibre does a nice job of converting XHTML to ePub; it can be 
read in all the readers that I use, but it won't pass the validation 
tests. OK unless you want to publish on sites that require validation.

Cheers,
Alan



> Nick
> 
> 



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