Lovely book. I am up to about page 53 and it has remind me of things I have forgotten and taught me a number of new things.
I second Steve Litt's comment about the language. Very easy to read and does not--at least so far need any English editing. It would be nice if 90% of the native English speakers I know wrote as well. On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 14:54, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 11:19:05 -0400 > Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 03:59:44AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > but LyX' html and xhtml exporters > > > export pidgeon xhtml and html that requires all sorts of human > > > intervention and garbage removal. > > > > Have you reported bugs for this or are all of the bugs covered by > > existing reports? LyX HTML export is slowly improving, especially when > > bugs with minimal examples are reported. > > I reported them on this list, many, many times, and was shouted down as > people priortized just-right rendering of Apple Retina Displays over > any sane way of LyX authoring 21st century flowing text books (ePub, > for instance) without repeated human intervention. > > I was told that the xhtml and html export mechanisms were "just fine" > for ePub. They use different styles for the first paragraph after a > heading, for gosh sakes. They almost completely converted styles to > inline appearance codes so I couldn't customize my ePubs via CSS. The > HTML they put out wasn't WYSIWYM, it was 100% pure fingerpainting. The > files were therefore HUGE. > > Understanding that xhtml/html exports would never be adequate for ePub, > I begged for the transition of LyX's language to well-formed XML to be > completed so I could write my own LyX to ePub converter. No. Too much > work. > > After years of begging and pleading, I created Stylz to author both PDF > and ePub. I am writing two different books written in Stylz. > It's not easy for one developer to develop an authoring tool and write > books at the same time, but I'm doing it. Stylz already renders HTML > beautifully, does ePub pretty darn well, but its rendering in PDF is > defective and needs several repairs. > > I had given up on LyX, because it's important I be able to have one > document render both PDF and *high quality* ePub, without human > intervention. If lwarp can *correctly and semantically* export LyX to > HTML5 *as XML*, I might write the HTML5 to ePub converter and return to > the LyX fold. > > But if you're asking me to report the inadequacies of LyX' html and > xhtml exports for the purpose of ePub, I've done my time. And nobody > cared. And I've moved on. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business > http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada
