Re: A ReportLab Book

Hi,

I am actually considering trying to layout a chapter or two using ReportLab
for section two of the book to demonstrate how this sort of thing might be
accomplished...so if Andy is volunteering some help with that, I would be
happy to accept! I am pretty confident I could do it, although it may not
be very pretty.

The reason I write in Markdown is that I need the mobi and epub formats
too, which ReportLab doesn't support. I would rather submit mobi to Amazon
than have them convert from PDF as their conversion process kind of sucks.

Thanks,
Mike


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Mike Driscoll

Blog:   http://blog.pythonlibrary.org
Books: Python 101 <https://gum.co/py101>, Python 201: Intermediate Python
<https://gum.co/py201>

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 5:30 PM, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 16 February 2018 at 22:57, Mike Driscoll <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Dinu,
> >
> > It would be fun to write the book with ReportLab. That would be really
> meta.
> > I am actually writing it in Markdown basically as that makes it easy for
> > Leanpub to convert it to an attractive format for PDF, epub and mobi
> > formats. I do use Python to generate parts of the book in other ways
> though.
> >
>
> I think authoring in either Markdown or ReStructuredText makes perfect
> sense, but we would love the chance to help write some code to lay it
> out camera-ready using ReportLab - ideally a bit nearer the time as we
> have heavy projects underway until mid May.    About 18 years ago we
> did a demo for O'Reilly, laying out book source in their house style
> from the source (DocBook).
>
> - Andy
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