Re: groff for epub/e-books (was: groff 1.22.4 mandb 2.11.2 man -H tbl not rendered)

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-02-23 09:02, Deri wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 February 2023 15:13:03 GMT Brian Inglis wrote:
> > > So, if some entrepreneur wants to fund me for a year or two to move this 
> > > forward, shoot me an email.  ;-)

> > See https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/gen-epub-book awk script
> > and packages asciidoc, docbook-utils, ebook-tools, htmldoc, poppler,
> > texinfo. There may even be an emacs mode for that!
> > I've hacked text into directories and zipped into an ebook, then edited the
> > epub/zip using gvim.

> I use groff to produce pdfs suitable for viewing on a kindle, i.e. custom page 
> size to suit the kindle screen and my eyesight! The text file is from 
> gutenberg.org then I run a script to turn it into a troff file. This is an 
> example (you need to transfer to the reader):-
> http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/The%20Murder%20on%20the%20Links%20(Kindle).pdf

Kindles now support epubs (v3 I think) which provide a much better and nicer 
experience on an epaper (eink is a TM) ereader (especially hi res 2-300dpi) with 
packages above.

If you can produce X/HTML chapters, converting most symbolic entities to UTF-8, 
with gif/jpeg/png/svg images, generate the metadata, and zip it all up properly, 
you get an epub you can flip onto your ereader.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry