With the current surge of interest in ebooks and ebook readers I thought I would
be good idea to post a reminder that a2x generates both EPUB
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB) and PDF files (the two most popular open
epublishing formats).
So if you've written a book (or and article) in AsciiDoc all you need to do is
something like this:
a2x -fepub -dbook mybook.txt # Generates mybook.epub
a2x -fpdf -dbook mybook.txt # Generates mybook.pdf
There's a link to the AsciiDoc example article in EPUB format on the website:
http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/article.epub
My current favorite software epub reader is the Firefox EPUBReader addon
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/45281/), browsers are a natural
fit for EPUB (EPUB is just a bunch of zipped HTML files) and I'd like to see
browsers support EPUB natively.
To succeed EPUB needs better reader software and industry support (Amazon Kindle
is still resisting EPUB in favor of it's proprietary DRM format, though it can
now read PDFs).
Cheers, Stuart
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