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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tex4ebook - Change encoding of output to latin1
My tex4ebook ebook is formated in utf8. However, in the Kindle preview, characters are not shown correctly. Indeed, Kindle publishing seems to require latin1 encoding ... ( https://kdp.amazon.com/...
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Tex4ebook - cellspacing and cellpadding
my ebook created with tex4ebook contains cellspacing and cellpadding in tables. These attributes are not tolerated anymore (according to the ebookcheck). How can I remove them in the build process?
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Using `\widehat` in tex4ebook fails
In the generated epub file, the hat is invisible.
The MWE is:
\documentclass{amsbook}
\begin{document}
$\widehat{t_0}$
\end{document}
This compiles under plain LaTeX, without any problems, and ...
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tex4ebook can't change directory because of UNC paths [closed]
I had used tex4ebook to make an epub3 book about two years ago. After updating my MikTeX, and moving to the book directory, I tried to remake the epub file using the command:
cd \Users\me\Documents\...
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What's the Simplest Way to Convert a book from XeLaTex to Epub [duplicate]
I have a 508-page book setup in LaTex. The book has 60+ images and uses custom fonts (the reason why I'm using XeLaTex). I use Overleaf and can easily spit out PDFs to create the paperback version of ...
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How to remove the word “Chapter” from the heading in ebook: tex4ebook
I am compiling an ebook in Kannada and I would like to remove the word "Chapter" from the heading in the ebook.
The output of ebook as shown in the first image . However, I would want it ...
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How to wrap paragraphs in XML tags?
Closely Related: Changing paragraph begin/end commands
Is there a LaTeX "hook" for automatically wrapping paragraphs in boxes, or preferably XML tags?
I would like to load the outputted file into an ...
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The Table of Contents (TOC) is not appearing in the .docx file or the ePUB file when I run the pandoc command on the .tex file?
I am working on overleaf and the document compiles beautifully to a PDF file.
However, now I want to convert the .tex file to a .docx or a .ePUB file.
I have researched for over 6 hours this thing ...
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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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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 "...
