Questions tagged [epub]
EPUB (short for electronic publication) is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Files have the extension .epub.
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Creating new functions that allow me to insert or ignore text fragments based on global variables
I am using the tex4ht package to compile EPUB documents with LaTeX. However, I am also using the same base .tex files to compile PDF documents with pdflatex. Since there are some significant ...
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How does tex4ebook work with images (png, jpg)?
After finish writing a book in LaTeX, I learned the many online books are published in the ePub format. Then I decided to learn a little bit of how to convert .tex (or .pdf) into .epub.
The book has ...
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Convert XeLaTeX to ePub
Hi all,
I have a XeLaTeX file which once compiled gives that kind of pdf page :
What I need is to have from the tex file an ePub format instead of the pdf one.
So before posting all this message, ...
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LaTeX (PDF) to EPUB format?
I have a book created via pdfLaTeX using the memoir document class starting with:
\documentclass[letterpaper, oneside,twocolumn]{memoir}
and ending up with a 128 page book which includes text, maths,...
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What is a reasonable course to convert a novel from latex to epub/azw?
I need to convert a novel (NO math, but lots of citations and direct speech) from current PDF/printed paper to high-quality epub/azw4 to publish as eBook.
Current layout is based on memoir and ...
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Ligatures generated by tex4ebook inconsistently supported
As a followup to htlatex, garamond fonts, and nulled "ff" and "fi" strings on getting ligatures working correctly with tex4ebook, I've managed to get ligatures to not be replaces ...
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Can I sabotage attempts to make EPUB from my PDF?
Suppose that I have a tex-based PDF manuscript with math content. I am wondering if it is possible to "sabotage" attempts to convert that PDF to EPUB.
Specifically, I am wondering if all math ...
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How to convvert Indian language .tex file to epub with a neat output
I am trying to convert a book in Malayalam prepared using XeLaTeX into an epub file. I tried with Calibre, which gave a file that had many problems with the Malayalam text. Then I tried with pandoc, ...
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Is it possible to use skak package to generate document in epub or mobi format?
I use skak to generate a beautiful chess book in PDF format. Unfortunately, Amazon Kindle does not import the PDF well. So, I have to make a Kindle friendly formatted book such as epub.
Is it ...
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xelatex to epub3 with pandoc and footnote links?
I am creating an ePub like this:
pandoc test.tex --latex-engine=xelatex -o e.epub --bibliography=works-cited.bib -f latex -t epub3+footnotes
However, instead of getting footnotes like this in ...
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Errors when generating epub and mobi formats with tex4ebook
This is a follow-up of my questions from here and here. The setup files have been provided by @Michal.h21.
I am getting errors when using tex4ebook and generating epub and mobi
outputs.
The input ...
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How to cite an epub or ebook with biblatex-dw?
Background
Reading so-called electronic books is becoming increasingly common, not only as a leisure activity, but also as a serious means to do research. However, there is some reluctance to embrace ...
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Pandoc breaks hyperlinks in LaTeX file conversion
I want to convert a (quite complex) LaTeX file to epub using pandoc with:
pandoc -S file.tex -o file.epub
I have not used markdown in the creation of the tex file, however. When I, now, check the ...
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why tspan instead of class? italics not rendered using htlatex
When using htlatex with "html,fn-in", the generated html has
<tspan font-family="cmti" font-size="10">should be italics </tspan>
but this is not rendered in the html (at least not in ...
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Use ConTeXt to turn EPUB into PDF
Because ConTeXt is good at manipulating XML, it would seem likely that it is also good at handling EPUB, since this is essentially a zipped collection of HTML and CSS files. I am wondering if there ...
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How to keep image file extension when exporting LyX to LaTeX
With the workflow:
LyX -> LaTeX -> ePub (via pandoc)
And I'm having a problem where an image filename included in LyX (say "image.jpg") will be converted into "image" (no extension) in LaTeX. pandoc ...
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Fixed Layout Epub 3 File Format
Epub, like the Amazon Kindle .mobi format, is designed for reflowable text. So LaTeX seems to have made few inroads as the file format philosophies are so different. I came across an article about "...
