Perry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > I won’t go into why I found it but I discovered a directory on my Mac > down the ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~apple~iBooks/Documents > path called “The Org Manual.epub”. The contents appears to be the Org > manual around 2022, release 9.5, from “The Org Mode Developers”. There > is another directory for a Canon lens that is also in epub format. > > Can anyone give me a clue as to where the epub version of the Org > manual came from? Did Apple Books decode the PDF into an epub format?
I don't know, but it's easy to make a basic epub from the .texi file of the manual. For foo.org -> foo.texi -> foo.epub, in four easy steps: 1. Enable the Texinfo exporter in Org : '(require ox-texinfo) 2. Install the texinfo cli tools -- for Mac, I believe they're on Homebrew 3. Export foo.org to Texinfo 4. Convert to epub : makeinfo --epub3 foo.texi > Part of what I’m doing is researching what it will take to get Org to > export to EPUB. There is at least one repo that claims to do this but > it looks rather dated. If you take ox-epub for a spin, I'd love to hear how it goes. It doesn't seem is why I didn't include it straight away the other day when I refurbished the community exporters page (https://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/). But if you take ox-epub for a spin (https://github.com/ofosos/org-epub, also available on Melpa via the package manager), I'd love to hear how it goes. Peter Prevos has some notes on it here: https://lucidmanager.org/productivity/publishing-with-org-mode-export/
