-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 25/04/11 8:53 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > There is also http://odt2daisy.sourceforge.net/ - in case your reader > supports the daisy format.
I hadn't even heard of DAISY, but it looks very cool so thanks for pointing me at it. I just installed the extension and will have a little play with it at some nebulous point in the future. > Other than that: what would be a special requirement for eReaders? I can't speak for anyone else, but as long as an eReader can display content as it would in a normal book then it's good enough. If that book is a novel, then it will usually be pretty easy (e.g. text, italics, bold, small capitals, subscript, superscript and maybe footnotes). If that book is a text book (e.g. a science book) with charts, formula, pictures, etc.) then more may be required. > I know PDF is suboptimal because it needs to scale to the display > screen. When it comes to books, PDF is only really useful for type-setting a print book (e.g. the way Lulu uses them for preparing print on demand books). > plain text might be boring to read (headings, etc hard to spot, lack > of structural information for navigation), rtf might not be > supported by the reader... Well, I wouldn't opt for either of those formats. > So there probably is no one-size-fits all solution. And it depends > on what the purpose is: personal use (i.e. conversion of random > documents) or dedicated publishing (aim is to write a book and > publish it) and thus how many restrictions you can impose on the > structure/formatting of the document. Exactly. At this stage most ebook publishers, including self-publishers, usually need at least two or three formats for each publication and often more. Until your post I was considering PDF, ePub, Kindle (.mobi) and maybe one or two others (.lit and whatever Sony uses). Now you can add DAISY to the list too. It takes a little time to prepare all the relevant formats, but compared to the process of writing, proofing and editing, not really all that much. Regards, Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREKAAYFAk22TscACgkQNxrFv6BK4xOCPACg2MrNKNR+rHs1sYTFul8PuyN4 dgcAnixKVPC8dMbq/hZt1TB50JebuPpX =oQTC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
