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Yes, and it might be good enough for short, simple documents. For me using a product like PrinceXML gave me the power of HTML/CSS to control the eBook's appear
by pat_shaughnessy 14y ago
Yes, and it might be good enough for short, simple documents.
For me using a product like PrinceXML gave me the power of HTML/CSS to control the eBook's appearance more precisely. Also, using a Ruby-based build process let me take advantage of source control, ERB/Ruby code and other things. In other words, it made the whole process easier to manage for producing a large document.
- brini 14y agoI'm interested in whether you looked into using a DocBook tool chain via publican or asciidoc.
- pat_shaughnessy 14y agoNo I didn't. Sorry I'm not familiar with it - can you tell us what the pros/cons of that approach might be vs. what I did?
- brini 14y agoThe reason I asked was your comment about taking advantage of source control and the implied separation of content from formatting. The only real advantage that I can see to going with publican[1] or asciidoc[2] is that they're free tools. The main disadvantage is that you'd have to define formatting via XSL. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocBook http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocBook [2] http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
- pat_shaughnessy 14y agoXSL! Oh no! I'll have to steer clear of that :)