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

[Alexis]

Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca> writes:

> 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.

Those wanting to play around with creating EPUBs might be 
interested in a guide i recently wrote, "Creating a minimal EPUB":

 https://github.com/flexibeast/guides/blob/master/minimal-epub.md

together with an accompanying POSIX shell script:

 https://github.com/flexibeast/epub-create


Alexis.