Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-03 Thread Jan Tosovsky
On 2014-07-02 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > > I have an urgent project that needs three outputs: pdf, epub, and > kindle. The formatting needs are pretty basic. > > What is the recommended, more efficient workflow for this sort of > thing? For multichannel publishing it is a mu

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/2/2014 11:18 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:12:10 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: What is the recommended, more efficient workflow for this sort of thing? Should I start with markdown and then generate context and epub (then con

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/2/2014 11:12 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Dear gang, I have an urgent project that needs three outputs: pdf, epub, and kindle. The formatting needs are pretty basic. In your experience: What is the recommended, more efficient workflow for this sort of thing? Should I st

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/3/2014 9:14 AM, Gour wrote: Aditya Mahajan writes: In the long run, I think that the "easiest" way to generate multiple output formats for non-trivial input text is to use XML as your input format. Although I do not like XML-based format as input for writing, I wonder how is ConTeXt han

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-03 Thread Keith McKay
Dear Idris If your document is simple I would consider the following workflow. I use this method for simple novels to produce both ePubs and Kindle output relatively quickly from a word docs which authors send me. Load the word doc into OpenOffice and save in OpenOffice format (.odt). Using

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-03 Thread Gour
Aditya Mahajan writes: > In the long run, I think that the "easiest" way to generate multiple > output formats for non-trivial input text is to use XML as your input > format. Although I do not like XML-based format as input for writing, I wonder how is ConTeXt handling XML format *today* ? Si

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-02 Thread Andres Conrado
I've been using a workflow to generate epub + PDF for several books so far, and in my experience, using Markdown base files is very good: you can include images, links, etc., and then you can use pandoc ( http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) to generate both epub and context source, also you can cust

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Dear gang, I have an urgent project that needs three outputs: pdf, epub, and kindle. The formatting needs are pretty basic. In your experience: What is the recommended, more efficient workflow for this sort of thing? Should I

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2014-07-03 um 03:12 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد : > What is the recommended, more efficient workflow for this sort of thing? > Should I start with markdown and then generate context and epub (then convert > epub=>kindle I presume)? Or does one context file with pdf and epub

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:12:10 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: What is the recommended, more efficient workflow for this sort of thing? Should I start with markdown and then generate context and epub (then convert epub=>kindle I presume)? Or does one context file with pdf

[NTG-context] ConTeXt epub workflow

2014-07-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Dear gang, I have an urgent project that needs three outputs: pdf, epub, and kindle. The formatting needs are pretty basic. In your experience: What is the recommended, more efficient workflow for this sort of thing? Should I start with markdown and then generate context and epub (then co