Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-25 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Steve Litt via lyx-users said on Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:09:56 -0400 >And please make the output well-formed XML as well as HTML5. HTML5 can, >but doesn't have to be, well formed XML. It's a couple orders of >magnitude easier to deal with if the exported HTML has all opening tags >accompanied by

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-25 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Pavel Sanda via lyx-users said on Fri, 25 Mar 2022 09:20:15 +0100 >That said, the unfortunate news is that speedy prototyping in external >python script is probably going to share the fate of other scripts of >this sort (elyxer being last but not the only one): cool and perhaps >better than the

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-25 Thread Pavel Sanda via lyx-users
On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 07:24:02PM -0800, Ken Kopelson via lyx-users wrote: > 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

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-09 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Perl is your friend :-)-O or Python, Lua or whatever language you prefer. el On 2022-03-09 06:41 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users wrote: Is there a substitute for \thinspace that will not generate an error in elxyer? -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-08 Thread Tom Goldring via lyx-users
Is there a substitute for \thinspace that will not generate an error in elxyer? -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-07 Thread Guenter Milde via lyx-users
On 2022-03-07, Murat Yildizoglu via lyx-users wrote: > When I have contacted Alex last year when I was converting my book, I > have understood that he is not continuing to work on this project > anymore. Fortunately, ElyXer continues to be functional with LyX. But I > have met some quirks during

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-07 Thread Murat Yildizoglu via lyx-users
When I have contacted Alex last year when I was converting my book, I have understood that he is not continuing to work on this project anymore. Fortunately, ElyXer continues to be functional with LyX. But I have met some quirks during the translation. I had to correct them by custom scripts

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-07 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Ken there is a mailing list/news group for elyxer (last traffic 2017) elyxer-us...@nongnu.org gmane.editors.lyx.elyxer el On 2022-03-07 04:35 , Ken Kopelson via lyx-users wrote: [...] Speaking of which, I did run into a problem with the LyXHTML export from LyX. The other

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-06 Thread Ken Kopelson via lyx-users
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

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-06 Thread Ken Kopelson via lyx-users
Well, regardless of any other issues, I have a fully working LyXHTML => EPUB/Kindle converter. It was written in Python because a) it was fast to develop, b) it runs plenty fast, and c) Python had the perfect libraries for parsing HTML and generating EPUB. Item (c) then led to FAST TO DEVELOP. I

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-06 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Sun, 6 Mar 2022 21:24:57 +0200 >Steve, > >Since it such a schlepp, why don't you participate in the development >or support the developers? LyX is great software by a great project. Great projects can be very bad in certain respects, and that doesn't

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-06 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
Steve, Since it such a schlepp, why don't you participate in the development or support the developers? Never mind that LyX seems to predate the Kindle, this is a LaTeX issue rather than a LyX one (which, after all, just a front end). As written numerous times I am very keen on on the new

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller via lyx-users
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

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-05 Thread Murat Yildizoglu via lyx-users
Hi Steve, I think that not every one of us has the same kind of needs as you. For example, for a basic user like me, a “good enough” converter that gives me the ability to easily create reasonable ePub and Kindle books would definitely be useful. Sometimes PDF is not the most convenient

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-05 Thread Steve Litt via lyx-users
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

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-05 Thread 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? 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

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-04 Thread Emile Lunardon via lyx-users
Thank you for this information. I will be very interested to see the result of this tool in action. Personally I use LyX to produce pdf documents optimised for the screen sizes of Kindle "paper white, voyage" and Kobo e-readers. This of course leads to documents with much larger memory sizes than

Re: EPUB converter

2022-03-03 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users
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