#3035: Create EPUB version of the book
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Reporter: matthew@… | Owner: lfs-book@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.2
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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Old description:
> The LFS-7.1 release was announced on slashdot and one of the commenters
> mentioned that it would be nice if we made an EPUB version of the book
> (http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2712781&cid=39280289). I've
> previously looked into this, so that I could read LFS on my eBook reader,
> but other events got in the way, so this ticket is here so I don't drop
> this again!
>
> Plan of attack for supporting EPUB is:
>
> 1) Upgrade to Docbook-XSL-1.76.1 by initially importing the 1.76.1
> stylesheets into the LFS tree, similar to how the existing snapshot is
> used
> 2) Ensure there are no regressions in the existing HTML & PDF output
> formats
> 3) Add customisation layer for EPUB format
> 4) Remove the in-tree version of the XSL distribution, and rely on
> distribution-installed versions instead.
New description:
The LFS-7.1 release was announced on slashdot and one of the commenters
mentioned that it would be nice if we made an EPUB version of the book
(http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2712781&cid=39280289). I've
previously looked into this, so that I could read LFS on my eBook reader,
but other events got in the way, so this ticket is here so I don't drop
this again!
Plan of attack for supporting EPUB is:
1. Upgrade to Docbook-XSL-1.76.1 by initially importing the 1.76.1
stylesheets into the LFS tree, similar to how the existing snapshot is
used
2. Ensure there are no regressions in the existing HTML & PDF output
formats
3. Add customisation layer for EPUB format
4. Remove the in-tree version of the XSL distribution, and rely on
distribution-installed versions instead.
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Comment(by matthew@…):
Replying to [comment:1 bdubbs@…]:
> Can you cut/paste from an ebook to a terminal?
Obviously, if you had an e-book reading app (e.g. Calibre) on your host,
then yes :-) But no, I don't think any e-reader hardware supports copying
and pasting from it to a PC.
As for the advantage of doing this, I can't think of any other than being
able to read the book on an e-reader device, but isn't that reason enough?
(It means I'd be able to proof-read LFS on my travels, when I typically
don't have my laptop with me). Steps 1, 2 and 4 above though, would have
the advantage of ripping the in-tree copy of some snapshotted version of
the docbook stylesheets out of our tree and have us use an upstream-
released version, in-keeping with LFS' general attempts to keep up-to-date
with upstream packages.
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