Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-11, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/11/2011 03:14 AM, Steve Litt wrote: The man page shows the --export option but fails to list all the possible values for fmt. I'd like to see that list added to the man page. Impossible, since what formats are available depends upon what converters

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple of sticking points that aren't quite as

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday, September 12, 2011 01:10:07 PM Rob Oakes wrote: Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub).

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/12/2011 01:10 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: Last time I looked, elyxer did pretty much the same sort of thing, but had footnotes styled with things like float: right;, rather than with the appearing and disappearing act they do in LyX. But the real issue, as we

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-11, Richard Heck wrote: On 09/11/2011 03:14 AM, Steve Litt wrote: The man page shows the --export option but fails to list all the possible values for fmt. I'd like to see that list added to the man page. Impossible, since what formats are available depends upon what converters

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Rob Oakes
Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple of sticking points that aren't quite as

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday, September 12, 2011 01:10:07 PM Rob Oakes wrote: Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub).

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/12/2011 01:10 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: Last time I looked, elyxer did pretty much the same sort of thing, but had footnotes styled with things like float: right;, rather than with the appearing and disappearing act they do in LyX. But the real issue, as we

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-09-11, Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/11/2011 03:14 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >> The man page shows the --export option but fails to list all the >> possible values for fmt. I'd like to see that list added to the man >> page. > Impossible, since what formats are available depends upon what >

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Rob Oakes
> Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with > LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple of sticking points that aren't quite as

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday, September 12, 2011 01:10:07 PM Rob Oakes wrote: > > Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting > > with LyX's internal XHTML export. > > Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a > fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/12/2011 01:10 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with LyX's internal XHTML export. Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > Last time I looked, elyxer did pretty much the same sort of thing, but had > footnotes styled with things like "float: right;", rather than with the > appearing and disappearing act they do in LyX. But the real

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 09:53:08 AM Richard Heck wrote: On 09/10/2011 07:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Just speaking for myself, I think LyX is the best ePub authoring environment imaginable because you want your ePub formatting absolutely uniform, entirely styles-based, with no one-off

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-11 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/11/2011 03:14 AM, Steve Litt wrote: What advantage would LyX's internal XHTML export have over eLyXer? One is that LyX's XHTML and CSS output can be customized through layout files, the way you'd customize anything else. Indeed, if you define a new paragraph style, LyX will, by default,

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 09:53:08 AM Richard Heck wrote: On 09/10/2011 07:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Just speaking for myself, I think LyX is the best ePub authoring environment imaginable because you want your ePub formatting absolutely uniform, entirely styles-based, with no one-off

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-11 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/11/2011 03:14 AM, Steve Litt wrote: What advantage would LyX's internal XHTML export have over eLyXer? One is that LyX's XHTML and CSS output can be customized through layout files, the way you'd customize anything else. Indeed, if you define a new paragraph style, LyX will, by default,

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 09:53:08 AM Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/10/2011 07:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Just speaking for myself, I think LyX is the best ePub authoring > > environment imaginable because you want your ePub formatting > > absolutely uniform, entirely styles-based, with no

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-11 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/11/2011 03:14 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > What advantage would LyX's internal XHTML export have over eLyXer? > One is that LyX's XHTML and CSS output can be customized through layout files, the way you'd customize anything else. Indeed, if you define a new paragraph style, LyX will, by

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Fernandez
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Progress on the LyX-eBook front! I open it in Okular and it's justified correctly, but there are obvious mistakes, including bullet lists that have lots of blank bullets tacked on the end. I installed Mozilla's

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 01:21:02 AM Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Progress on the LyX-eBook front! My book is written in LyX (lastchance.lyx), and I converted it to ePub. Here's how. [clip] Now I use the elyxer program (I believe it's available on Windows also) to convert my LyX

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/10/2011 07:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Just speaking for myself, I think LyX is the best ePub authoring environment imaginable because you want your ePub formatting absolutely uniform, entirely styles-based, with no one-off manipulations or fingerpainting. And it just so happens that

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Fernandez
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Progress on the LyX-eBook front! I open it in Okular and it's justified correctly, but there are obvious mistakes, including bullet lists that have lots of blank bullets tacked on the end. I installed Mozilla's

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 01:21:02 AM Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Progress on the LyX-eBook front! My book is written in LyX (lastchance.lyx), and I converted it to ePub. Here's how. [clip] Now I use the elyxer program (I believe it's available on Windows also) to convert my LyX

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/10/2011 07:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Just speaking for myself, I think LyX is the best ePub authoring environment imaginable because you want your ePub formatting absolutely uniform, entirely styles-based, with no one-off manipulations or fingerpainting. And it just so happens that

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Fernandez
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > Progress on the LyX->eBook front! > I open it in Okular and it's justified correctly, but there are obvious > mistakes, including bullet lists that have lots of blank bullets > tacked on the end. I installed Mozilla's

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 01:21:02 AM Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Progress on the LyX->eBook front! > > My book is written in LyX (lastchance.lyx), and I converted it to > ePub. Here's how. [clip] > Now I use the elyxer program (I believe it's available on Windows > also) to convert

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 09/10/2011 07:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Just speaking for myself, I think LyX is the best ePub authoring > environment imaginable because you want your ePub formatting > absolutely uniform, entirely styles-based, with no one-off > manipulations or fingerpainting. And it just so happens

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Progress on the LyX-eBook front! My book is written in LyX (lastchance.lyx), and I converted it to ePub. Here's how. Originally the directory has only a couple outlines and my LyX file, a 6400 word book, shown in this directory listing displayed by Linux's ls command:

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Progress on the LyX-eBook front! My book is written in LyX (lastchance.lyx), and I converted it to ePub. Here's how. Originally the directory has only a couple outlines and my LyX file, a 6400 word book, shown in this directory listing displayed by Linux's ls command:

Re: [Pub-forum] ebook follies

2011-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Progress on the LyX->eBook front! My book is written in LyX (lastchance.lyx), and I converted it to ePub. Here's how. Originally the directory has only a couple outlines and my LyX file, a 6400 word book, shown in this directory listing displayed by Linux's ls command: