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sartori · 11-07-2007, 05:44 PM

Kovidgoyal (and anyone else with input)

As you have experience with writing convertors for different formats - what would be your preferred 'Master' format for ebooks? I know you are not necessarily the authority on this, but as you write a lot of the easy to use tools for converting to lrf I thought your ideas would be good to hear.

My goal is to create good looking reproductions of pdf archive.org books for viewing on screen in a browser which is not too hard to do. (see http://www.britdesigner.com/sample.html). My problem right now is that even though this looks ok on screen the source html is quite a mess.

I know you mentioned that your tools should be able to parse my sample document, but it might be easier if I build my documents in a format that I know will work well with your code.

I've checked out some of the custom markup languages out there but I think it would be best to use something that is considered a standard.

Thanks for any input you might offer.

11-07-2007, 05:44 PM	#1
sartori Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 29 Join Date: Oct 2006	Q. for Kovidgoyal or others about Markup Languages Kovidgoyal (and anyone else with input) As you have experience with writing convertors for different formats - what would be your preferred 'Master' format for ebooks? I know you are not necessarily the authority on this, but as you write a lot of the easy to use tools for converting to lrf I thought your ideas would be good to hear. My goal is to create good looking reproductions of pdf archive.org books for viewing on screen in a browser which is not too hard to do. (see http://www.britdesigner.com/sample.html). My problem right now is that even though this looks ok on screen the source html is quite a mess. I know you mentioned that your tools should be able to parse my sample document, but it might be easier if I build my documents in a format that I know will work well with your code. I've checked out some of the custom markup languages out there but I think it would be best to use something that is considered a standard. Thanks for any input you might offer.