On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:31:31 +0200 Jan Ulrich Hasecke <juhase...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I want to publish ebooks and typeset books from the same source, > because today nearly all new books are offered as ebooks and as > printed books. > > Up to now I didn't find a good solution working out of the box. > > Sphinx, the documentation system written in Python offers multiple > output formats from one source, eg. PDF via LaTeX. EPub support is > improving but not perfect yet. You have to tweak it a bit > (http://www.hasecke.eu/Members/juh/sphinx-a-tool-for-self-publisher) > > I now want to give LyX a try, I used it years ago but always went back > to LaTeX. > > I saw that there isn't a no epub support in LyX up to now. I read > about exporting to html and converting to epub via Calibre. This is a > workaround I could choose if I had to, but it is not the solution I am > looking for. > > So what are the plans for the future? I read about a GSOC project > aiming to implement epub conversion in LyX. Is there a timeframe? In > the road map of 2.1 epub is not mentioned. > > TIA > juh Jan, I have faced the same problem myself, and have used the HTML route with very little trouble and with very little effort. I simply export to LyXHTML and import into Sigil. Some tweaking in Sigil is usually desirable, if not strictly required. Sigil includes EPUB validation with FlightCrew (which most publishers require), as well as the capability to edit all parts of EPUB. Overall, it is vastly superior to generating an EPUB file from an MS Word document, which is what most self-publishers (and many publishers) do. Better results, and less effort. Les
