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Pomax / nrGrammar

The Nihongo Resources grammar book: "An Introduction to Japanese; Syntax, Grammar & Language"
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EPUB format? #41

Open ribbanya opened 3 years ago

ribbanya commented 3 years ago

Hi, I've glanced over your book and it seems very well-structured. Certainly a breath of fresh air from the heavily European-influenced mess that is traditional "Japanese grammar" in the West.

I was hoping to read this on my Kindle Paperwhite, which does technically have PDF support but it is very poor. Similarly, the HTML version is not well-supported by its browser. Do you have any plans to convert this to EPUB?

Pomax commented 3 years ago

I'm looking into finding a new print-on-demand service for it, if that service has a way to automatically offer EPUB then that's a bonus, but I don't currently have plans to overhaul the build system to generate EPUB in addition to PDF (unless you know of a way to make xelatex output EPUB that has the same look as the PDF, but with the fluid page numbering of EPUB).

The content was fairly specifically written and typeset for PDF, making sure specific sections start on new pages, graphics don't get split, etc. so converting that to something that also generates nicely as EPUB is not trivial =(

Kreijstal commented 2 months ago

couldn't you take the html version and make an epub from it?

Pomax commented 2 months ago

I could, but the HTML version is not the real book, it's just a best-I-could-do-with-the-time-that-I-have approximation.