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Originally Posted by Valloric
This is exactly how I see an epub editor: a tool that facilitates the manual creation of an epub book from pre-existing text. BD for epub... without the suck.
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yes, please without the suck.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
If you accept aribtrary HTML as input and want to output standards compliant HTML the only way to do that is to basically strip the HTML down to a basic internal markup and then re-export it. This is for example what BookDesigner does. There is no way you can accept arbitrary HTML input and losslessly convert it to standards compliant HTML output (and no htmltidy doesn't do this).
So really what the tool will have to do is:
1) Accept html input
2) parse the html input into some simple internal markup
3) Try to auto identify structural components (or ask the user to provide input to help identify them)
4) Provide an editor interface for the internal markup
5) Export the internal markup to EPUB
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okay, i see what you mean. you are right of course ; i was making the assumption that the input would be clean and valid code, which cannot necessarily be assumed.
out of curiosity, Valloric, have you seen the feedbooks wysiwyg editor ? i HIGHLY recommend you take a look at it and at how the book creation process is handled ; it is excellent, and it is easily accessible even to people who know nothing at all about html / css, however also gives access to the source code for more knowledgeable users. really, in my mind, the tool i would like would be very close to the feedbooks interface, with just a few modifications. notably i definitely want to be able to insert images, which feedbooks does not yet support.
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Originally Posted by mtravellerh
If you do that (5), people like Coolmicro will get up and shout again that the resulting epub is not conform to standard and that the html code is not "clean". (I really do not care about "clean or dirty" code myself, as long as it does what it has to do, like Calibre does for example). So I am all for it.
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why ? the exported code can easily be clean, that is one of the goals.