<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 28, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Alan Litchfield wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>Just had a quick look through the free version. Congratulations on the book. I will see about getting the paper version.<br><br>I would have thought that book were achievable in LaTeX/TeX/XeTeX but in any case, I would probably have done it in FrameMaker.<br><br>So far as outputting to EPUB, there was some discussion on this on this list and texhax some time ago. Unless there has been some development work, I believe the consensus was that such a workflow does not exist. Elements may be cobbled to make a workflow.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I was part of that earlier discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Long story, but: a friend and I retyped (in LaTeX) an old book to be reissued, Lillian R. Lieber's <i>The Einstein Theory of Relativity</i>. It sold reasonably well. The republisher, Paul Dry Books of Philadelphia, wanted to do an electronic version. They found a firm (or a person) who would do it but for quite a large sum of money. I thought it could be done in house, and asked in this forum. At the time, and I fear to this day, there is no good way to get LaTeX into epub. (I don't know if Paul Dry ever did the electronic version.) It's a little bit surprising given that we have MathJax (because, if I am not entirely delusional, the conversion of html into epub is pretty good via Calibre or other tools.) </div><div><br></div><div>I don't know if anyone has the time and the expertise and the generosity to put together a tool that would pump out epub from a LaTeX source, but it's gotta be possible. </div><div><br></div><div>Is there some way to get something like this done as crowd code / open source?</div><div><br></div><div>David Derbes, physics teacher</div><div>U of Chicago Lab School</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>I have experimented with a number of files with and without graphics, tables, etc. I found that Calibre produced passable results but nothing was as good as pdf. Simple text files are fine.<br><br>Interesting discussion here on Stack-exchange.http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1551/use-latex-to-produce-epub<br><br>Regards<br>Alan<br><br><br>On 29/04/14 8:03 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hello folks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I just published Mastering ArchiMate - Edition II (See <a href="http://bit.ly/1iNacG8">http://bit.ly/1iNacG8</a>) and (as you might have recalled when I discussed this on TeX mailing lists 1.5 years ago) I was unable to do this layout-heavy book in TeX, so I did it in InDesign CS6.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am planning another book which is more text-oriented. Actually. I already have written larger parts of it using ConTeXt. Now I have to decide what to use for final production. I would like to finish this in ConTeXt but I would also like to possibly output EPUB. I preferably do not want to use InDesign anymore.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Have work flows been devised to combine PDF production for print and EPUB from a TeX-based source?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Yours,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">G<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>-- <br>Dr Alan Litchfield<br>AlphaByte<br>PO Box 1941<br>Auckland, New Zealand 1140<br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>