Re: EPub?
Guenter Milde <[email protected]>
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On 2017-04-26, Matěj Cepl wrote: > How do people here generate EPub archives from their rST? I don't know, actually. > Which gets me back to my original thought: why isn’t some > rst2epub script part of docutils themselves? This is a long standing TODO issue (see docs/dev/todo.txt). However, noone volunteered to to the work ... > From looking to pages like > https://www.thoughtco.com/create-epub-file-from-html-and-xml-3467282 , > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/index.html > , or http://www.idpf.org/epub/301/spec/epub-contentdocs.html it > doesn’t seem to be THAT complicated. Although, do we have support for > generating XHTML? Both html writers generate XML-compatible HTML. There is also an XHTML1.1 writer in the sandbox. The problem with epub is our CSS stylesheet that contains some code that is not allowed in epub. > Isn’t whole generating epub just stiching together HTML (which > we know how to generate, hopefully) with some metadata (which we > already have for generating ToC etc.)? Yes. It just needs to be done... Günter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Docutils-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/docutils-users Please use "Reply All" to reply to the list.