On 2019-12-10, Jan U. Hasecke
Am 09.12.19 um 22:13 schrieb Nicola:
What is the current status of epub support in ConTeXt?
I have never followed ConTeXt's development on the XML front too closely, but recently I have been asked to help format a text-only manuscript for publishing on platforms such as Kindle or Apple Books Store. Can ConTeXt be used (or perhaps even recommended) for that? Or would I have better luck with the proprietary tools (Kindle Create, iBooks Author)?
Sorry, no info concerning ConTeXT.
You don't have to use proprietary tools. An easy way to create ebooks from Markdown files (or other sources) is Pandoc. https://pandoc.org/
I produce all of my ebooks in this way. In most cases they validate without errors. If there are some errors though I use Calibre to fix them manually.
Thanks, I didn't think of Pandoc, I'll give it a try. In the past, I have tried to create some simple content (slides) with Markdown, but my conclusion was that if you know TeX, it doesn't make sense to use Markdown :) Perhaps this is a silly question (excuse my ignorance about the topic): what if you want to add some stylistic touches to your ebooks, such as initials? Or Non-breaking spaces? How about adding, say, a text box with a different background and a smaller font? *** Or fine control page numbering, headers, footnotes, ligatures, or the spacing between paragraphs, or center a separator as above? Do you need to modify the generated CSS for that, or would ConTeXt (or Pandoc) allow you to take care of (some of) those things? Nicola