Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> Situation is that doc-view can read PDF files, and Libreoffice or Open
> Document files, and others, but EPUB files are not included. Many
> digital books are made in EPUB format.
>
> Vasilij Schneidermann <mail 📧 vasilij.de> have written the nov-mode
> which when aded to auto-mode-list, opens EPUB files
>
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.epub\\'" . nov-mode))
>
> I have asked him, he would be somehow willing to cooperate if this is
> also confirmed by more users, there are few problems with it, as it
> depends on dash.el and other packages.

I sent him a patch a few weeks ago to remove dash (attached below), so
that shouldn't be an issue if he's interested. It's not a radical
change, but at the time he wasn't interested.

The second dependency, esxml is practically part of nov-mode, and
wouldn't make sense to factor it out.

-- 
	Philip K.