EBook of documentation

[email protected] (Richard Hainsworth)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.users
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Hi to everyone.

We have reformatted all the documentation into an EBook! It is now 
available from the docs.raku.org website.

Click on More, then EBook, read the popup and download the book.

THIS IS A FIRST DRAFT, so there's things wrong and help is needed to get 
it right.

Why have EBook? Its an offline form of the documentation, and is smaller.

The EPUB 3 specification is targetted, but most ebook readers seem to 
require some EPUB 2 components (see below).

On a desktop, the Calibre reader and editor read the book correctly. 
Callibre is cross platform.

On an Android I have tried a couple of readers, but nothing stands out 
yet. Moon+works but doesnt like the Table of Contents (see below), One 
reader wouldnt load the book.

Problems needing help.

1. EPUB 3 differs from EPUB 2 by the Table of contents. Epub 3 requires 
and xhtml format (provided), but Epub 2 requires a ncx format (not 
provided). So first task for someone is to look at how the xhtml toc 
file is created and create a ncx one.

Most Ebook readers assume that the ncx file is available, even though 
for Epub 3 it is not required.

On doc-website, the relevant plugin is EBook/plugins/ebook-embedd.

Once the file is generated, some experimenting will be needed to work 
out how best to incorporate it into the ebook.

2. The CSS could be improved.

- the code snippets are fixed format and highlighted. Some TLC is needed 
here

3. A cover image is needed.

Regards,

Richard Hainsworth

aka finanalyst
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