EPUB converter

[Murat Yildizoglu]

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 format.  

I agree that HTML export from LyX is not perfect (even without entering the strict semantical markup area, since I do not have needs that yet pushed me in there, I understand that it is your case) and I had to write a full set of scripts to tweak the output to make it beautiful enough to my eyes and correct some errors generated by Elyxer (I prefer the output by Elyxer to the native one because its author had a keen sense of esthetics and it is beautiful out of the box in my case). I nevertheless use LyX as my main editing platform because it is a fantastic tool and I am sincerely grateful to all the people who have contributed to its development. 

Consequently, I would be happy to test any ePUB output system to check if it is “good enough” for me.

Thank you for your efforts Ken. I think that the lyx-devel list would be a good place to start. Unfortunately, it is a closed list as far as I know. But they also listed to lyx-users and probably some of the developers could give you good pointers towards people in charge of this part of the conversion tools.

Best regards,

Murat



> On 6 March 2022, at 09:09, Steve Litt via lyx-users <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 project is the wrong project to do LyX=>ePub; ePub isn't in
> their DNA, and until I'm shown otherwise, I'm treating any LyX=>ePub
> capabilities from the LyX project as vaporware.
> 
> Where can I download your converter with instructions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> SteveT
> 
> 
> Ken Kopelson via lyx-users said on Sat, 5 Mar 2022 12:47:52 -0800
> 
>> 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 appreciated. Even telling who I can contact
>> about this.
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> *Ken Kopelson*
>> (619) 733-3374
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 5:29 AM Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users <
>> lyx-users at lists.lyx.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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