Hi Ken,
I suggest you put it out. The LyX project has a 15 year history of
outputting pidgeon HTML incapable of building a *semantic* ePub,
claiming what they've done is good enough, and treating with hostility
my observations that they're prematurely converting style to appearance.
The LyX project is the wrong project to do LyX=>ePub; ePub isn't in
their DNA, and until I'm shown otherwise, I'm treating any LyX=>ePub
capabilities from the LyX project as vaporware.
Where can I download your converter with instructions?
Thanks,
SteveT
Ken Kopelson via lyx-users said on Sat, 5 Mar 2022 12:47:52 -0800
> Does anyone know how I can get in touch with the people who are
> working
>on the EPUB export in version 2.4? I want to gauge if it will be worth
>it for me to put my converter out. This will depend on:
>
>1) When 2.4 will be released
>2) How good the EPUB export will be
>
>Any help on this would be appreciated. Even telling who I can contact
>about this.
>
>Many thanks,
>*Ken Kopelson*
>(619) 733-3374
>
>
>On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 5:29 AM Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users <
>lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> wrote:
>
>> Ken,
>>
>> where is the missing link :-)-O?
>>
>>
>> This is great news.
>>
>> I am actually waiting for 2.4 and DocBook to convert my 859
>> page "handbook" to EPUB so my staff and I can carry it around on our
>> Kindles (App on iPad actually).
>>
>> But, I would be very keen to see how your package works.
>>
>> My little handbook doesn't really need anything fancier than a few
>> images (JPG, PNG and PDF).
>>
>> I also use (in one (common) "include.tex") something like
>>
>> \usepackage{etoolbox}
>> \newbool{business}
>> \boolfalse{business}
>> \newbool{private}
>> \booltrue{private}
>>
>> but if that (see your below remark) were not to work I can address
>> that via a Makefile and different include (front matter) files as
>> you seem to be doing.
>>
>> Maybe you can look into that, because then you can have a single
>> include file by putting something like this into a Makefile
>>
>> bus:
>> @perl -i -p \
>> -e
>> 's/\\boolfalse\{business\}/\\booltrue\{business\}/g;' \
>> -e
>> 's/\\booltrue\{private\}/\\boolfalse\{private\}/g;' \ include.tex
>> @lyx -f -e pdf5 handbook.lyx
>>
>> priv:
>> @perl -i -p \
>> -e
>> 's/\\booltrue\{business\}/\\boolfalse\{business\}/g;' \
>> -e
>> 's/\\boolfalse\{private\}/\\booltrue\{private\}/g;' \ include.tex
>> @lyx -f -e pdf5 handbook.lyx
>>
>> and then use something like
>>
>> \ifbool{business}{}{\include{business.tex}}
>> \ifbool{private}{\include{private.tex}}{}
>>
>> as ERT.
>>
>> Looks complicated, is complicated, but once it works no further
>> touching required.
>>
>>
>>
>> In the meantime I have pulled
>>
>> http://www.editorium.com/ftp/LyXBookSampler.zip
>>
>> from
>>
>> https://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts
>>
>> and will start some RTFM :-)-O
>>
>> greetings, el
>>
>>
>> On 03/03/2022 00:58, Ken Kopelson via lyx-users wrote:
>> > Hello LyX users,
>> >
>> > I am sending this email to let people know that I have produced a
>> > converter for LyX that produces an excellent quality EPUB/Kindle
>> > file.
>> [...]
>> > I love using LyX with the LyXBook theme (as it has the greatest
>> > number of paragraph formats), and I am able to set up a system of
>> > files, having different Front Matter versions.
>> [...]
>> > I know that the next version of LyX is supposed to produce EPUB,
>> [...]
>> > As one final problem, the LyXHTML export fails to include anything
>> > in the LaTeK code blocks,
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