Hi Jürgen, Thank you for the message. As for my time usage, I have already built the external converter, because I have books that are on a publishing schedule, and they need to get out there. My question is where I go from here. I'm not sure if the LyX team realizes just how many self-publishing authors are out there in the world. It is a very large number. When I joined the Self-Publishing School (with thousands of students all writing books), I found that nobody even knew about LyX. I think authors should be using LyX, but it needs to be easier, and EPUB/Kindle is absolutely mandatory.
I am willing to talk with the guy who is writing the EPUB output, and help him make it better. Even if only to serve as a consultant, since a) I'm a developer with decades of experience, b) I'm a published book author, and c) I've written a fully-working external converter from LyXHTML to EPUB. Given all of that, I think I can be of service to the LyX project, at least in some capacity. Can you please put me in touch with the individual that I should speak with? Many thanks, *Ken Kopelson* (619) 733-3374 On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 1:09 AM Jürgen Spitzmüller via lyx-users < lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> wrote: > Am Samstag, dem 05.03.2022 um 12:47 -0800 schrieb Ken Kopelson via lyx- > users: > > Does anyone know how I can get in touch with the people who are > > working on the EPUB export in version 2.4? > > Via the lyx-devel list. EPUB is Thibaut's field who has re-implemented > DocBook support completely for 2.4.0, and epub on top of that. > > > 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 > > Nobody can answer this seriously at the moment. 2.4 is basically done, > but there is no release schedule yet and many developers are busy with > their real lifes. > > > 2) How good the EPUB export will be > > I suggest you checkout LyX 2.4.x from the repository yourself, try and > report back. I don't think it has been heavily tested except by the > person you implemented it. > > Generally I'd say your time would be better invested in helping to > improve LyX's own EPUB output than building an external converter. And > feedback on how to improve the epub output is certainly most welcome. > > Best, > Jürgen > > > -- > lyx-users mailing list > lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users >
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