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Looks great, thanks for sharing. Any plan to make an epub available? I’d love to read it on an e-ink display.

• opsdisk 7y ago
  Haven't had too many requests for that yet. Do you have any recommendations for creating an epub file? The book was written in LaTeX with VS Code. I worry that a lot of the command line stuff and images wouldn't look good on a reader.
  • m-p-3 7y ago
    Sigil maybe? https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil Other than that, this StackExchange discussion has some interesting ways to achieve it: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16569/latex-document-to-epub-or-mobi-ebook-formats-with-mathematical-formulas https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16569/latex-document...
  • dfc 7y ago
    Pandoc will convert LaTeX to epub.
  • mrzool 7y ago
    There are definitely several options, but I would recommend Pandoc to compile an epub from LaTeX source — off the top of my head. Images are not problematic at all on an e-reader. Here’s an example of how an illustration looks like on my old Kindle: https://i.imgur.com/zfqbnOO.jpg https://i.imgur.com/zfqbnOO.jpg Tables and such are also usually just raster images embedded in the epub’s XML: https://i.imgur.com/SHYUrNL.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SHYUrNL.jpg https://i.imgur.com/u0tZ2TO.jpg https://i.imgur.com/u0tZ2TO.jpg …and so are code blocks, usually displayed in a monospaced but condensed font and converted to raster image as well to avoid wrapping: https://i.imgur.com/d7ly8GH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/d7ly8GH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/g0lIPpj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/g0lIPpj.jpg Long story short: Images are not an issue, and there’s a way to ensure code blocks will look good by converting them to images. That would indeed require some work, but maybe there's a tool to automate that? Edit: All examples are from UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook by Garth Snyder et al., Addison-Wesley Professional; 5th edition (2017)
    • opsdisk 7y ago
      Cool, thanks for the recommendation.