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I've been working on an Ebook for a while now, and it is quite hard. So I'm not surprised that many books have bad typography. Our ebook is for the open sourc
by illumen 15y ago
I've been working on an Ebook for a while now, and it is quite hard. So I'm not surprised that many books have bad typography.
Our ebook is for the open source/FOSS project PyGame. http://www.pygamezine.com/ http://www.pygamezine.com/
PyGameZine is in Beta, and we're launching today.
We made the book in html, and converted that into PDFs. The process was quite hard over all. Haven't started on the process of turning it into an EPUB yet.
- adrianN 15y agoWhy did you choose HTML over something like DocBook that makes it easy to convert it to other formats?
- illumen 15y agoThat probably would have been a saner way to go. However, we felt that authors would find html easier to write, and designers would find it easier to design in. Maybe something like restructured text would have been ok to do too. Since it is a python magazine, and many python programmers would know restructured text. If we make it to another issue, we might think about using a separate toolchain.