norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2010/06/10/epubreduxhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/06/10/epubredux/comments.atom2012-05-23T23:30:43.063887ZComment 1 on /2010/06/10/epubreduxhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012010-09-08T16:49:35Z2010-09-08T16:49:35ZIvan Hermanda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Norm, I downloaded, as a test, the XML 1.1 document on my Mac using Adobe's digital edition, and also on my iPad using iBook. It reads really really well.

What is involved if I want to install a similar pipeline on my machine?

Thanks!

Ivan

Comment 2 on /2010/06/10/epubreduxhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00022010-10-11T16:33:44Z2010-10-11T16:33:44ZLech Rzedzickida39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Ivan - if you haven't figured this out already - there is a ton of ways to compile an epub. Basically it's a bunch of HTML files zipped up plus: OPF file: a manifest, declaring specifying MIME types of files a reading order (a spine) NCX file: a hyperlinked table of contents

For a good GUI tool I recommend Calibre and similar.

if you want control, clean markup etc then just produce valid XHTML files and bundle them together using one of the plethora of tools. At one point in time I have used a ruby gem for this, it was buggy, but worked well enough for me. Unfortunately there's a few things in OPF + zipping up that can't be done in pure XSL, otherwise I would have written an XSL that compiles an epub a long time ago...