Re: [NTG-context] Ebooks with ConTeXt?

Am 10.12.19 um 08:50 schrieb Nicola:

On 2019-12-10, Jan U. Hasecke wrote:

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?

Ebooks are xhtml so styles are limited to the capabilities of css. I fear that initials has to be left flowing images.

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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?

No page numbers in E-Books and I would avoid headers. Footnotes are endnotes. Ligatures might be possible if directly inserted, sorry never tried this in an ebook. You can modify the css to achieve what is possible in xhtml, though. I have to confess that I never managed to create an ebook with context right aways. AFAIK, please correct me Hans, you end up with an epub folder not the compressed epub itself. I would guess that it is a good thing if you want to postprocess the book manually by editing content files or css. What I can say about epub generally is: It's better to avoid fancy styling at all and use the default fonts and styles of the ebook devices. HTH juh