EPUB converter

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

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 handbook doesn't really need anything fancier than a few
images (JPG, PNG and PDF).

I also use (in one (common) "include.tex") something like

	 \usepackage{etoolbox}
	 \newbool{business}
	 \boolfalse{business}
	 \newbool{private}
	 \booltrue{private}

but if that (see your below remark) were not to work I can address that
via a Makefile and different include (front matter) files as you seem to
be doing.

Maybe you can look into that, because then you can have a single include
file by putting something like this into a Makefile

bus:
	 @perl -i -p \
		  -e 's/\\boolfalse\{business\}/\\booltrue\{business\}/g;' \
		  -e 's/\\booltrue\{private\}/\\boolfalse\{private\}/g;' \
		  include.tex
	 @lyx -f -e pdf5 handbook.lyx

priv:
	 @perl -i -p \
		  -e 's/\\booltrue\{business\}/\\boolfalse\{business\}/g;' \
		  -e 's/\\boolfalse\{private\}/\\booltrue\{private\}/g;' \
		  include.tex
	 @lyx -f -e pdf5 handbook.lyx

and then use something like

	 \ifbool{business}{}{\include{business.tex}}
	 \ifbool{private}{\include{private.tex}}{}

as ERT.

Looks complicated, is complicated, but once it works no further
touching required.



In the meantime I have pulled

	 http://www.editorium.com/ftp/LyXBookSampler.zip

from

	 https://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts

and will start some RTFM :-)-O

greetings, el


On 03/03/2022 00:58, Ken Kopelson via lyx-users wrote:
> Hello LyX users,
> 
> I am sending this email to let people know that I have produced a
> converter for LyX that produces an excellent quality EPUB/Kindle file.
[...]
> I love using LyX with the LyXBook theme (as it has the greatest number
> of paragraph formats), and I am able to set up a system of files,
> having different Front Matter versions.
[...]
> I know that the next version of LyX is supposed to produce EPUB,
[...]
> As one final problem, the LyXHTML export fails to include anything in
> the LaTeK code blocks,
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