On 8/28/2014 9:16 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
... On guttenberg you can often select several download formats.
Of course. I've been using Gutenberg since the early 90's, when they distributed only plain ASCII text and refused to accept anything else. I was glad when Professor Hart finally recognized the advantages of html. Of course, he's gone now, and even before he died, others were working with him. And, as you point out, they accept and distribute several formats now.
For html you do not need an epub viewer. I would open in LibreOffice, format to my liking, and generate output for my preferred viewer - calibre could do that, too. I wanted to see what epub was all about. I'd had the impression it was some proprietary thing and was surprised to see it on Gutenberg.
I didn't know LibreOffice dealt with epub. I'll have to check your idea out.
Can you give a link to the particular book on Guttemberg? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31100
But, as I said, it's of no great importance to me. I was checking out epub, which seems to be becoming more popular, and found that I couldn't access linked sites. In particular, I couldn't even make the internal links work.
Open with LibreOffice works perfect, too. And you can easily reformat it (font, page size, etc). Hmm, that's quite interesting. I'll have to work more with LO. I've only used it to write documents and open MS office documents. For html, I use and like kate.
Did the WotW epub follow the html links when you viewed it in LO? The Complete Austen (Gutenberg 31100) has a master volume that links to the individual volumes and their chapters. That's what I couldn't get to work. The html version works just fine, of course, once you find the actual master ToC (not obvious at all). jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 28/08/2014 16:15, John Perry a écrit :
Can you give a link to the particular book on Guttemberg? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31100
did yopu notice the epub is an archive with html in it? jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2014-08-28 16:15, John Perry wrote:
On 8/28/2014 9:16 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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For html you do not need an epub viewer. I would open in LibreOffice, format to my liking, and generate output for my preferred viewer - calibre could do that, too. I wanted to see what epub was all about. I'd had the impression it was some proprietary thing and was surprised to see it on Gutenberg.
No, no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that an EPUB reader can optimize text for a particular display device. EPUB also supports fixed-layout content. The format is intended as a single format that publishers and conversion houses can use in-house, as well as for distribution and sale. It supersedes the Open eBook standard.[3] ·····················++- Epub is a wonderful format for books, better than PDF, because the user can choose type and/or size of font, display size, and it all reflows properly. You can choose display in 1 mm high letters, or 1 cm, it just works. However, it is also true that you can add DRM to it, and commercial publishers usually do. It is breakable, though (for backup purposes, of course). And there are variations in how publishers add it. Plus, I think that not all readers (gadgets, I mean) can handle it. This book: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/86 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain has epub version with both images and without, so it is a good one to try this.
I didn't know LibreOffice dealt with epub. I'll have to check your idea out.
Wait, I did not say that. I use LO to open html books, not epub. LO can not handle epub.
Can you give a link to the particular book on Guttemberg? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31100
I'll check.
But, as I said, it's of no great importance to me. I was checking out epub, which seems to be becoming more popular, and found that I couldn't access linked sites. In particular, I couldn't even make the internal links work.
I'm waiting for that book to download and see.
Open with LibreOffice works perfect, too. And you can easily reformat it (font, page size, etc). Hmm, that's quite interesting. I'll have to work more with LO. I've only used it to write documents and open MS office documents. For html, I use and like kate.
I don't mean to use LO to create web pages, which it does, but, in this case, to open and edit these free books in html format. You can then save them in .odt instead. Some years ago that's what I did: downloaded the html from gutenberg, opened in LO (even MS office), then printed on paper. I did not have an e-reader.
Did the WotW epub follow the html links when you viewed it in LO? The Complete Austen (Gutenberg 31100) has a master volume that links to the individual volumes and their chapters. That's what I couldn't get to work. The html version works just fine, of course, once you find the actual master ToC (not obvious at all).
Don't get confused, LO doesn't handle epub, it handles html. For epub, use Calibre. I tell it to convert, then read using calibre, or export to my electronic reader (in my case, a Kobo). Ok, your book downloaded. The table of contents works, up to a point: only the books, not the chapters in them. This is, guessing, a fault of the gutenberg preparation. However, Calibre has adjustments to detect "Content" and list it, and heuristics, but failing that, you can simply edit the epub and "correct" it. Checking again... this book you have linked to, is not the actual book, it is just a listing of Jane Austen books... the text is not included. That's why the table of contents doesn't link to chapters! And the html version is different. I can't open it correctly with LO. It works fine with firefox, though. And it has some extra download instructions that I don't fully understand. This other book: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/86 works perfect, at least as epub. Table of contents correct, links to chapters working, images display, different fonts for different texts... -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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