[OT] Book authoring

Nick Dokos nicholas.dokos at hp.com
Fri Dec 9 11:18:40 EST 2011


Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos at hp.com> wrote:

> There is also orgmode, which has been used for a few books
> (http://orgmode.org ). I know it does HTML and PDF (the latter through
> latex), but I'm not sure about ePub: ISTR somebody actually did ePub for
> his book but I don't remember details. 

Avdi Grimm produced his book "Exceptional Ruby"
(http://exceptionalruby.com ) this way, including ePub formats (I hope
mentioning Ruby in this context is not a punishable offense...)


Apparently, there is calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/ ) that will take
you from HTML to ePub. See this orgmode list article e.g.

     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/41826

Nick




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