Anyone interested in splitting the load with me in producing an ebook from a pdf? - Page 2

eschwartz · 10-19-2015, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by tricerahops

Well then. Though unfortunately at a glance that one looks near identical to what PeterT made, which puts it behind the one RgnJrg put out in the matter of half an hour. Surprised it's the official one tbh. I think I'll continue w/ the project!

I did say the native Sphinx EPUB builder was likely not optimal.

But it is the newest version, by a couple of changes.

And the difference between it and what RbnJrg put out is that he actually spent time on it.

Feel free to use whichever (keeping in mind that my EPUB has the latest changes, for whatever that is worth).

Duplicating what he did shouldn't be that hard anyway, the important thing is to not be working from PDF!

DiapDealer · 10-19-2015, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by tricerahops

@DiapDealer, no problem but what I set out to do was work with someone in Sigil so it was in the right forum and if RgnJrg didn't come along with his magic touch it would definitely still belong there (imo).

I'd have moved it even if there had been no responses. The fact that you wanted to use Sigil to do your project doesn't change the fact that there's nothing Sigil-specific about your project. You simply wanted help creating an epub (which I'm happy you got, BTW). Good luck going forward.

RbnJrg · 10-19-2015, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by tricerahops

@RbnJrg, it's like you're a mind reader, I've been trying to get those to go away for a bit now! Thank you again.

You are welcome. I attach a new version this time with the images re-inserted (and others minor changes).

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Is there a shortcut to removing tables? I've included a screenshot of an example of them + the html.

Why? The .azw3 supports very well tables. I also attach a Kindle version so you can see how it looks.

Regards
Rubén

PS: It would be convenient that you read this ebook in landscape mode with your ereader.

tricerahops · 10-19-2015, 11:59 AM

Rubén, I don't really have words. You've done damn near everything (as well as probably a few things I missed). I have a feeling my work on this will be very small now. And actually on those tables, I agree they do work well in azw3 -- I had no idea until earlier today when I was messing with it on the kindle that you could press on one and zoom to see it all, kind of like an image. Thank you x100.

Cheers,
Michael

RbnJrg · 10-19-2015, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by eschwartz

And for the sake of variety, here is the official EPUB (built with Sphinx, took approximately 1 minute, two if you count the time spent cloning the Bzr branch with the source in reStructuredText)

Disclaimer: I have no idea how well Sphinx documentation actually fares with the builting EPUB converter, you can probably do a lot better with manual love and care.

Ah... worth noting. The latest revision was 2012-10-13

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~thinkc...tart_revid=486

Very interesting. I had installed Sphinx but I never thought to use it to build an epub. Could you explain me the steps you followed to build the manual? Many thanks in advance.

RbnJrg · 10-19-2015, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by tricerahops

Rubén, I don't really have words. You've done damn near everything (as well as probably a few things I missed). I have a feeling my work on this will be very small now. And actually on those tables, I agree they do work well in azw3 -- I had no idea until earlier today when I was messing with it on the kindle that you could press on one and zoom to see it all, kind of like an image. Thank you x100.

Cheers,
Michael

You are welcome

eschwartz · 10-19-2015, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by RbnJrg

Very interesting. I had installed Sphinx but I never thought to use it to build an epub. Could you explain me the steps you followed to build the manual? Many thanks in advance.

The manual has a link to the source repository at https://code.launchpad.net/~thinkcsp...thinkcspy3-rle (It uses Launchpad's Bzr VCS, but you can also download the tarball at "Browse the code" --> View Revision (starts at latest) --> Download tarball).

For general elucidation of people:
The manual was written in reStructuredText, which together with Sphinx (which processes *.rst input) is the standard form of Python documentation.

Sphinx comes with a number of builtin "builder" modules to generate documentation output. In addition to html, it also offers htmlhelp (for CHM), LaTeX, txt, texinfo, manpages, xml, and of course EPUB.

This manual also has a default Makefile, so once you have the *.rst source for the manual it is as simple as

Code:

make epub

Or if you don't have Make, you can directly run:

Code:

sphinx-build -d build/doctrees/ -b epub source/ build/epub/

P.S. I un-hid (?

) the ToC and rebuilt the EPUB, much nicer. Again, this is just the default (mostly) source compiled into an EPUB directly via Sphinx.

tricerahops · 10-19-2015, 02:06 PM

@RgnJrg, did you by any chance update the text to include these revisions? I had assumed I would need to do so but when I went to make the changes they had already been made! If so, you are awesome. If not, you are still awesome and must have used the best possible source. Gosh, there doesn't seem to be anything for me to do now other than read the book and see if I find any small errors!

RbnJrg · 10-19-2015, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by eschwartz

The manual has a link to the source repository at https://code.launchpad.net/~thinkcsp...thinkcspy3-rle (It uses Launchpad's Bzr VCS, but you can also download the tarball at "Browse the code" --> View Revision (starts at latest) --> Download tarball).

For general elucidation of people:
The manual was written in reStructuredText, which together with Sphinx (which processes *.rst input) is the standard form of Python documentation.

Sphinx comes with a number of builtin "builder" modules to generate documentation output. In addition to html, it also offers htmlhelp (for CHM), LaTeX, txt, texinfo, manpages, xml, and of course EPUB.

This manual also has a default Makefile, so once you have the *.rst source for the manual it is as simple as

Code:

make epub

Or if you don't have Make, you can directly run:

Code:

sphinx-build -d build/doctrees/ -b epub source/ build/epub/

Many thanks for your explanation, very clear.

RbnJrg · 10-19-2015, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by tricerahops

@RgnJrg, did you by any chance update the text to include these revisions? I had assumed I would need to do so but when I went to make the changes they had already been made! If so, you are awesome. If not, you are still awesome and must have used the best possible source. Gosh, there doesn't seem to be anything for me to do now other than read the book and see if I find any small errors!

No, I don't do any update, just I utilized the text of the online manual and that text is updated

And for sure, you'll find a lot of errors

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10-19-2015, 11:59 AM	#19
tricerahops Member Posts: 10 Karma: 288 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: PW 2	Rubén, I don't really have words. You've done damn near everything (as well as probably a few things I missed). I have a feeling my work on this will be very small now. And actually on those tables, I agree they do work well in azw3 -- I had no idea until earlier today when I was messing with it on the kindle that you could press on one and zoom to see it all, kind of like an image. Thank you x100. Cheers, Michael

10-19-2015, 02:06 PM	#23
tricerahops Member Posts: 10 Karma: 288 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: PW 2	@RgnJrg, did you by any chance update the text to include these revisions? I had assumed I would need to do so but when I went to make the changes they had already been made! If so, you are awesome. If not, you are still awesome and must have used the best possible source. Gosh, there doesn't seem to be anything for me to do now other than read the book and see if I find any small errors!