Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2009-12-05 um 15:58 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد: On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:17:22 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote: Even if I don't intend to buy an eBook device, it made me think again about using another input language than TeX to create HTML, ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Henning, On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:17:22 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote: Even if I don't intend to buy an eBook device, it made me think again about using another input language than TeX to create HTML, ConTeXt and whatever from one source. Pandoc has this aim, and

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2009-12-02 um 18:03 schrieb Otared Kavian: For those on the list who didn't see this thread on XeTeX mailing list: How about ConTeXt and mkiv? Hm, your subject is a bit misleading - I thought you wanted to *create eBooks* using TeX. That would be much more useful... Even if some eBook

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2009-12-02 um 18:03 schrieb Otared Kavian: For those on the list who didn't see this thread on XeTeX mailing list: How about ConTeXt and mkiv? Hm, your subject is a bit misleading - I thought you wanted to *create eBooks* using TeX. That would be much more

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-03 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2009-12-02 um 18:03 schrieb Otared Kavian: For those on the list who didn't see this thread on XeTeX mailing list: How about ConTeXt and mkiv? Hm, your subject is a bit misleading - I thought you

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-03 Thread William Adams
On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:12 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Maybe epub as backend is a more interesting idea: given (some kind of gentle ) tex file one can produce an epub file as result. You're putting the cart before the horse. Sadly, epub is rather lacking in markup capabilities. Instead, one

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-03 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:10 PM, William Adams will.ad...@frycomm.com wrote: On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:12 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Maybe epub as backend is a more interesting  idea: given (some kind of gentle )  tex file one can produce an epub file as  result. You're putting the cart before the

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-03 Thread William Adams
On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Not really. My apologies, lost the thread of the discussion. I agree w/ this. With mkiv you can typeset xml files as pdf, so you can also (using modes) convert it to xhtml (we have lua now). Writing a css is not a problem, and you can also

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-03 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:52 PM, William Adams will.ad...@frycomm.com wrote: On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Not really. My apologies, lost the thread of the discussion. I agree w/ this. With mkiv you can typeset xml files as pdf, so you can also (using modes) convert it to

[NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-02 Thread Otared Kavian
For those on the list who didn't see this thread on XeTeX mailing list: How about ConTeXt and mkiv? Begin forwarded message: From: Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com Date: 2 décembre 2009 14:58:00 HNEC To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms xe...@tug.org Subject: Re:

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared Kavian wrote: For those on the list who didn't see this thread on XeTeX mailing list: How about ConTeXt and mkiv? You mean runing on an iphone? First of all I cannot afford one so I have no clue about its performance. But most of all, it was a limited tex run, although fun to see, but