REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

[Raghav Gururajan]

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Hello Guix!

Would it be possible to make the 'GNU Guix Reference Manual', available
in 'EPUB' format, at the web page guix.gnu.org/manual/? It would be
nice to read the manual from an e-reader.

I tried converting the PDF to EPUB via calibre and the result was
awful. Formatting got messed up. So I thought it would be better if the
epub was generated directly from source?

I presume HTML and PDF are auto-generated from the source, in the event
of new commit/changes? It would be nice to add EPUB to the list.

Please and Thank you!

Regards,
RG.

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Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

[Konrad Hinsen]

Hi Raghav,

> I tried converting the PDF to EPUB via calibre and the result was
> awful. Formatting got messed up. So I thought it would be better if the
> epub was generated directly from source?

Did you try converting the HTML version to EPUB? Calibre does that as 
well. EPUB is little more than a packaging convention for a subset of 
HTML, so this conversion is easier than starting from PDF.


Cheers,

   Konrad.

Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

[Raghav Gururajan]

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> Did you try converting the HTML version to EPUB? Calibre does that
> as 
> well. EPUB is little more than a packaging convention for a subset
> of 
> HTML, so this conversion is easier than starting from PDF.

Nice. I have not used HTML in calibre before. Should I import as HTML
URL or should I import as HTML bundle/package?

Thanks.

Regards,
RG.

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Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 11:26, Raghav Gururajan
<raghavgururajan@disroot.org> wrote:
>
> > Did you try converting the HTML version to EPUB? Calibre does that
> > as
> > well. EPUB is little more than a packaging convention for a subset
> > of
> > HTML, so this conversion is easier than starting from PDF.
>
> Nice. I have not used HTML in calibre before. Should I import as HTML
> URL or should I import as HTML bundle/package?

Or maybe Pandoc https://pandoc.org/epub.html using directly the texinfo file.


All the best,
simon

Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

[Raghav Gururajan]

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> Or maybe Pandoc https://pandoc.org/epub.html using directly the
> texinfo file.

Thanks! I will try this method.

Regards,
RG.

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Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

[Andreas Enge]

Hello,

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 11:35:04AM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> Or maybe Pandoc https://pandoc.org/epub.html using directly the texinfo file.

pandoc is a good idea, but the texinfo file causes error messages. I did
the following, which worked well:

makeinfo --html --no-split guix-cookbook.texi
pandoc guix-cookbook.html -o guix-cookbook.epub

Andreas

Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

[Raghav Gururajan]

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> pandoc is a good idea, but the texinfo file causes error messages. I
> did
> the following, which worked well:
> 
> makeinfo --html --no-split guix-cookbook.texi
> pandoc guix-cookbook.html -o guix-cookbook.epub

Thank you :-)

Regards,
RG.

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