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From: James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook as epub
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 20:45:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+hid6FVSaW-07w2iv1LJacfDbL-U92-X_Y4CnJ2KNbpQhQG7w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiDuwvC8z9ijRky3foUaFDjF7T8UigEg6pmka+Z5EbLnjw@mail.gmail.com>

On 9 November 2011 17:09, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to have the Handbook in a format convenient for reading in
> ebook readers.
>
> Now, I know I could take the existing HTML files and convert them, but
> I think it'd be nicer if I could get the handbook maintenance scripts
> to automate a conversion process, and then I could download the epub.

The Gentoo documentation is generated from XML, so creating something
to generate a .epub (which is just a bunch of zipped .html files)
shouldn't be too hard.

That said, I have had great success using Instapaper to create .epub
from .html. If you coupled that with a service which creates RSS feeds
by watching static pages for changes, you could have an updated epub
every time the RSS got an update. Easy! *

Steven covered everything else :)



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-09 17:09 [gentoo-user] Handbook as epub Michael Mol
2011-11-09 18:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Steven J Long
2011-11-09 19:01   ` Michael Mol
2011-11-09 20:45 ` James Broadhead [this message]

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