MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Making PDFs for the iliad using LaTeX (with LyX)

shonk · 07-24-2006, 06:34 PM

Note: there are a number of tools out there for intelligently converting plain text to LaTeX (i.e. fixing the quotes, changing *italic text* to {\it italic text}, etc.). I've put GutenMark (easily found by Google) to good use converting Project Gutenberg books to LaTeX in the past, but there are others out there. Most if not all can probably be trivially modified to produce 12x15cm output automatically (or, for that matter, whatever template you like) and, even if not, you can just make the necessary changes directly in the resulting TeX file.

Once I have an iLiad and some spare time, I definitely plan to play around with this a bit.

07-24-2006, 06:34 PM	#9
shonk Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2006 Device: Nokia 770/iLiad/e815	Note: there are a number of tools out there for intelligently converting plain text to LaTeX (i.e. fixing the quotes, changing italic text to {\it italic text}, etc.). I've put GutenMark (easily found by Google) to good use converting Project Gutenberg books to LaTeX in the past, but there are others out there. Most if not all can probably be trivially modified to produce 12x15cm output automatically (or, for that matter, whatever template you like) and, even if not, you can just make the necessary changes directly in the resulting TeX file. Once I have an iLiad and some spare time, I definitely plan to play around with this a bit. Last edited by shonk; 07-24-2006 at 06:38 PM.