Skip to main content
Ryan Price and the Media
Commanding Chaos for Coworking, Open Source and Creative Communities

Main navigation

  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Subscribe
  • Drupal Easy
  • Florida Creatives
  • Liberatr
  • Lifestream
  • ThinkUp
  • Home
User account menu
  • Log in

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Making An EPub Book From LaTeX

Making an ePub book from LaTeX

By rprice , 17 December 2014
Link
http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/ebooklatex.html
TeX and LaTeX are well suited to producing electronically publishable documents. What is likely to be a continuing need is to translate LaTeX documents into standard electronic book format, notably ePub, which is the format adopted by most electronic reader publishers except the biggest one (you know who). 1  What is ePub? You don't really want to know what the ePub standard is. And you are not going to find out much here. In short, though, an ePub book is a XHTML1 version of the book packaged together with its figures and other resources into a zip file. It has a couple of files of metadata. One describes the contents of the zip file and the other is the table of contents of the book, giving navigation links to chapters and sections. Converting a LaTeX book to ePub is basically a two step process: (1) translate it to XHTML; (2) package up the XHTML into an ePub file. If you are to be satisfied with your ePub version, you need to realize the difference between logical mark-up and page layout. I suggest you consult my brief discussion Should I translate to HTML or not at http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/shouldi.html. The ePub format is XHTML; so you don't have a choice.
Tags
ebook
tutorial
html
Twitter / liberatrRyan Price | Facebook Flickr: Photos from Liberatr.netInstagramYouTube :: Videos by liberatrLinkedIn: Ryan Price

I am nobody's puppet.

Disclaimer: My blogs are not a reflection of my employer's opinions, but are my own, and often unfiltered. Also, some links on this site may be part of an Amazon Associates program, so by clicking on them you help me pay for my independence.

Drupal Association - Individual Member Acquia Certified Developer Acquia Certified Developer Miro Video Player | Download torrents and podcasts, play any video, and do it with style. Gimp - a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Processing is an electronic sketchbook for developing ideas. Build a custom arts management solution. LibreOffice is the free power-packed personal productivity suite that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs

  • Thanks again, Steve. I hope
    14 years 1 month ago
  • Hi - bit late responding here
    14 years 1 month ago
  • Should have added...
    14 years 2 months ago
  • Hi Ryan,
    14 years 2 months ago
  • Ryan,
    14 years 2 months ago
  • It is happening and you are
    14 years 5 months ago
  • In close future I want to
    14 years 8 months ago
  • the article has been
    14 years 9 months ago
  • I think it's a great coup for
    14 years 9 months ago
  • My hardware box acts as an
    14 years 10 months ago

  • Blogging Fringe
  • Bringing Art and Technology Together
  • Drupal Easy Podcast
  • Florida Creatives Podcast
  • Invisible Frisbee
  • Liberatr.net Facebook
  • Liberatr.net
  • Orlando Podcasters
  • Orlando Scene TV
  • Orlando Video
  • Our Yellow House
  • Pulpp.net Orlando Blogs
  • Pulpp.org Real-Time Collaboration
  • Shrink Your Ecological Footprint
  • The Student of the Game

  • Alex Rudloff
  • Apartment E
  • Brian Feldman
  • Chad Miller
  • Charles Krueger
  • Chris Messina
  • Chris Scott
  • Chris Wojda
  • Daniel H. Pink
  • Daniel Smith
  • Darren McDaniel
  • David Terrar
  • Destination Journal
  • Dr. XNLB
  • Elizabeth Maupin
  • Eric Marden
  • Hugh McLeod
  • Jana Waring
  • Jeremy Harrington
  • John Rife
  • Josh Hallet
  • Katie Ball
  • Katharine Miller
  • Lloyd Davis
  • Loren Feldman
  • marc. with a c.
  • Marc Rapp
  • Mario Andy Lurig
  • Mark Baratelli
  • Mike G
  • Noel Hidalgo
  • PSFK
  • Rebekah Lane
  • Stephen Matheny
  • Thomas Thorspecken
  • Tim Welch

  • Florida Drupal Group
  • Izon Orlando
  • Orlando Coworking
  • Orlando Fringe
  • Orlando Improv Festival
  • Orlando PHP
  • Orlando Puppet Festival
  • Page 15
  • The Daily City
  • Urban ReThink

Powered by Drupal

<none>

  • RSS Feed