On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Pranesh Prakash <[email protected]>wrote:
> Anivar Aravind <[email protected]> [2013-11-18 16:03:00 +0530]: > > About SCERT & Kerala Text books, There official order will take few more > > days . please wait for that > > BTW Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is working closely with SCERT for > > bringing out HTML, EPUB and PDF versions of all text books . > > > > We are helping SCERT to build a Mediawiki based textbook preparation > system > > for collaborative content preparation by text book commitees and FOSS > > based XeTeX setup for book authoring and PDF/EPUB/HTML generation. So > > without any technical issues you can start using official Epub versions > > once it is released. > > This sounds *excellent*. Kudos on your fantastic efforts. > > Just an Update . This is not happened yet . Official Order is still pending There was an effort to change the decision of curriculum committee by an expert commitee ( a body which does not have powers to take policy decisions) and this year text books went for publishing without CC license/ XeteX typesetting But the curriculum committee meeting happened in January again decided same points again and decide to impliment on all text books from next year . So we need to wait for an official order fom government . > You might also want to check out Pandoc[1] and Markdown as part of the > workflow, and see whether it would fit/make things easier. While it is not > a TeX editor, Pandoc allow people to write in Pandoc-extended Markdown (and > LaTeX), which is considerably easier that authoring raw LaTeX, and have it > converted and rendered by a LaTeX engine of your choosing, including > XeLaTeX. It can also handle HTML/ePub generation. > The issue here is indian Language support . XeTeX is the only TeX engine with indian language support . Thanks for the pointer . we will explore Pandoc > > [1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html > > -- > Pranesh Prakash > Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society > T: +91 80 40926283 | W: http://cis-india.org > ------------------- > Access to Knowledge Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School > M: +1 520 314 7147 | W: http://yaleisp.org > PGP ID: 0x1D5C5F07 | Twitter: https://twitter.com/pranesh_prakash >
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