Hi all, For the first time I must maintain a book as an eBook AND a pBook. You can't really use the same PDF for both...
The pBook must have gutter margins to make up for the binding, so the left and right margin will be different and switch places between even and odd pages. For best screen reading, the eBook margins should remain constant between even and odd pages. The eBook has an integrated cover page, the pBook does not. The eBook footers are maroon background and contain the legend "Prepared exclusively for John Customer", whereas for minimal toner usage the pBook is all white in that area. I REALLY don't want to maintain two LyX documents, coordinating modifications between the two. So I maintain only the eBook LyX doc, and have a script that reads the eBook LyX and spits out a pBook PDF. The perl script is a filter whose stdin is the eBook LyX doc, and whose output is the pBook LyX document. The perlscript is a state machine, with state defined by a variable called $skip. Skip=0: Document preamble Skip=1: Document body, cover page or back of cover page Skip=2: Found "start here" marker inside LyX Note inset. Skip=3: Found the end of that LyX Note inset Skip=4: Passed the end of the inset, include everything else Here is the e2b.pl perlscript: ====================================== #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $skip = 0; my $line; while(<>){ $line = $_; chomp $line; if($skip == 0){ if ($line =~ m/\\myfooter/){ $line = ''; } elsif($line =~ m/\\begin_body/){ print $line . "\n\n"; print "\\begin_layout Standard\n"; $skip = 1; } elsif($line =~ m/\\leftmargin/){ $line = '\\leftmargin 2.3in'; } elsif($line =~ m/\\rightmargin/){ $line = '\\rightmargin 1.3in'; } } elsif(($skip == 1) && ($line =~ m/start_of_print_version_here/)){ $skip = 2; } elsif(($skip == 2) && ($line =~ m/^\\end_inset$/)){ $skip = 3; } elsif($skip == 3){ $skip = 4; } if(($skip == 0) || ($skip == 4)){ print $line . "\n"; } } ====================================== There's also an e2b.sh that makes the pBook LyX a temporary file and compiles down to a PDF. When $skip==0, I detect left and right margin and change them and I eliminate the footer (\myfooter). All books are different, so your mileage may vary, but if you have a doc that's sometimes an eBook and sometimes a pBook, you can do something like this. StevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt