[danmc]

I know this question ultimately has a lot of personal preference in the answer, so I'll try to inject some of my preferences into the question.

I am interested in a good work flow for creating books that target both devices like kindle, kindle for android, as well as PDF and hardcopy output.

Sometimes I may be starting with OCR text that needs a lot of manual fix up, sometimes I may be starting totally from scratch. For my immediate project at hand, there will be quite a large number of hyperlinks that I really want to work right.

In general I am a bit LaTeX fan for typesetting documents. However, I tend to be less than thrilled with the output of latex2html for a web page and it seems that the output may be substandard when viewed on a kindle.

So maybe I should be looking at some other source. I am *not* a fan of microsoft word (don't even have it) or openoffice.

One thought is maybe I should be looking at docbook or even just a home brew xml based thing. I hate to re-invent the wheel though on a home brew approach.

It seems that docbook may be better suited to producing html from the xml sources and also it clearly has been used to produce hard copy books.

My other option is to forget the hardcopy desire and just mark up my text in straight up html and view kindle and a web browser as my primary targets and relegate hardcopy to 2nd class.

I prefer staying with NetBSD, linux, solaris, etc as a computing platform and I generally prefer text based and command line based tools. I do have quite a bit of experience with various programming languages and some with xml and could learn more if that is the right path.

Comments, thoughts?

Most of what I've found so far seems to be either a microsoft word -> html -> manual edits flow or <something> to PDF flow.

Thanks
-Dan