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I recently explored a bit the (seemingly never ending!) landscape of ways to create ebooks. In the process, I found a number of technologies I did not know befo
by emmanueloga_ 7y ago
I recently explored a bit the (seemingly never ending!) landscape of ways to create ebooks. In the process, I found a number of technologies I did not know before:
* https://www.dita-ot.org/ https://www.dita-ot.org/
* http://projectmallard.org/ http://projectmallard.org/
* https://www.xmlmind.com/tutorials/HTML5Books/HTML5Books.html https://www.xmlmind.com/tutorials/HTML5Books/HTML5Books.html
I find the concept of DITA very interesting: to write reusable chunks of content (called "Topics"), that one can later map into chapters and sections to generate a whole manual. DITA is geared towards creating manuals, but got me thinking it would be a useful way of splitting content for books and even blog posts.
Mallard seems inspired by DITA but more minimalist. Looks pretty cool if I was generating documentation for a software product.
The last resource is what I will actually try [1]: "XMLmind Ebook Compiler (ebookc for short) is a free, open source tool which can turn a set of HTML pages into a self-contained ebook. Supported output formats are: EPUB, Web Help, PDF, RTF, WML, DOCX (MS-Word) and ODT (OpenOffice/LibreOffice)."
Similar to the author of the OP, I also like PDF better than other formats for reading ebooks.
1: https://www.xmlmind.com/ebookc/download.shtml https://www.xmlmind.com/ebookc/download.shtml