E-Book from WinEdt?

[Gottwald - kreartiv]

How do you create an e-book if you have your data/text in Winedt and normally produce a PDF File to be printed as book?

I am trying to find a good solution to do the above and I am struggling with the existing ones. I have tried a few of those Tools (axtex, BETAformat, h2l, html2latex, html2latex.sed, html2tex, htmlatex.pl, Hyperlatex, HyperTeX, IDVI, JAM, l2x, LaTeX2HTML, LaTeX2hyp, Ltoh, LTX2X, math2html, TeX2RTF, TeX4ht, typehtml, vulcanize, YODL ...) and either I did not get them to work or it was too complicated or the result was not as I expected. I tried to convert the PDF file with OCR (Abby Finereader), no good. Using a PDF file as an e-book source is not what I want.

Has anyone else tried anything successfully?

And: Wouldn't it be great to just have a button "publish as ebook" in WinEdt?
Are there any concepts, ideas, project existing to get there?

Thanks for some answers.

Volker Gottwald

[d***@fen.bilkent.edu.tr]

It depends on what you call an e-book (viz. the desired output format) and
what you have (i.e., the input format; just the fact that a file is loaded
to WinEdt tells us absolutely nothing about the nature of that file).
Then, just find an appropriate converter.

Post by Gottwald - kreartiv
How do you create an e-book if you have your data/text in Winedt and
normally produce a PDF File to be printed as book?
I am trying to find a good solution to do the above and I am struggling
with the existing ones. I have tried a few of those Tools (axtex,
BETAformat, h2l, html2latex, html2latex.sed, html2tex, htmlatex.pl,
Hyperlatex, HyperTeX, IDVI, JAM, l2x, LaTeX2HTML, LaTeX2hyp, Ltoh, LTX2X,
math2html, TeX2RTF, TeX4ht, typehtml, vulcanize, YODL ...) and either I
did not get them to work or it was too complicated or the result was not
as I expected. I tried to convert the PDF file with OCR (Abby Finereader),
no good. Using a PDF file as an e-book source is not what I want.
Has anyone else tried anything successfully?
And: Wouldn't it be great to just have a button "publish as ebook" in WinEdt?
Are there any concepts, ideas, project existing to get there?
Thanks for some answers.
Volker Gottwald

[Gottwald - kreartiv]

E-book files are mostly plain html. So if WinEdt could create a html file from a Latex formatted text; this would help.

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Gesendet: Sonntag, 28. September 2014 14:30
An: winedt+***@wsg.net
Betreff: Re: [WinEdt] E-Book from WinEdt?

It depends on what you call an e-book (viz. the desired output format) and what you have (i.e., the input format; just the fact that a file is loaded to WinEdt tells us absolutely nothing about the nature of that file).
Then, just find an appropriate converter.

Post by Gottwald - kreartiv
How do you create an e-book if you have your data/text in Winedt and
normally produce a PDF File to be printed as book?
I am trying to find a good solution to do the above and I am
struggling with the existing ones. I have tried a few of those Tools
(axtex, BETAformat, h2l, html2latex, html2latex.sed, html2tex,
htmlatex.pl, Hyperlatex, HyperTeX, IDVI, JAM, l2x, LaTeX2HTML,
LaTeX2hyp, Ltoh, LTX2X, math2html, TeX2RTF, TeX4ht, typehtml,
vulcanize, YODL ...) and either I did not get them to work or it was
too complicated or the result was not as I expected. I tried to
convert the PDF file with OCR (Abby Finereader), no good. Using a PDF file as an e-book source is not what I want.
Has anyone else tried anything successfully?
And: Wouldn't it be great to just have a button "publish as ebook" in WinEdt?
Are there any concepts, ideas, project existing to get there?
Thanks for some answers.
Volker Gottwald

[d***@fen.bilkent.edu.tr]

e-books are usuallu *.fb2, but this is matter of taste.
WinEdt certainly cannot, but there are lots of various converters. What
you need is latex2html or such (pay close attention to the order of the
formats in the name).

Post by Gottwald - kreartiv
E-book files are mostly plain html. So if WinEdt could create a html file
from a Latex formatted text; this would help.
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Gesendet: Sonntag, 28. September 2014 14:30
Betreff: Re: [WinEdt] E-Book from WinEdt?
It depends on what you call an e-book (viz. the desired output format) and
what you have (i.e., the input format; just the fact that a file is loaded
to WinEdt tells us absolutely nothing about the nature of that file).
Then, just find an appropriate converter.

Post by Gottwald - kreartiv
How do you create an e-book if you have your data/text in Winedt and
normally produce a PDF File to be printed as book?
I am trying to find a good solution to do the above and I am
struggling with the existing ones. I have tried a few of those Tools
(axtex, BETAformat, h2l, html2latex, html2latex.sed, html2tex,
htmlatex.pl, Hyperlatex, HyperTeX, IDVI, JAM, l2x, LaTeX2HTML,
LaTeX2hyp, Ltoh, LTX2X, math2html, TeX2RTF, TeX4ht, typehtml,
vulcanize, YODL ...) and either I did not get them to work or it was
too complicated or the result was not as I expected. I tried to
convert the PDF file with OCR (Abby Finereader), no good. Using a PDF
file as an e-book source is not what I want.
Has anyone else tried anything successfully?
And: Wouldn't it be great to just have a button "publish as ebook" in WinEdt?
Are there any concepts, ideas, project existing to get there?
Thanks for some answers.
Volker Gottwald

[Ulrike Fischer]

Post by Gottwald - kreartiv
E-book files are mostly plain html. So if WinEdt could create a
html file from a Latex formatted text; this would help.

Winedt can't. In the same sense that winedt can't create a pdf-file:
Winedt is a editor. With it you can write text.

Winedt can call other tools like pdflatex or tex4ht. So when you
have found the ideal converter then you naturally will be able to
add a suitable button to winedt.

Beside the tools you already mentioned you could check pandoc and
context.

[Gottwald - kreartiv]

Ulrike,

Yes I know WinEdit ist an Editor, but a powerful one. Sure - And, creating a PDF file is already integrated when you install it. And what I'm looking for is something integrated that would create a clean (may be html) file to create an eBook or even automatically create an eBook from the same source that is used to create a PDF "Book". And yes I know the programming for this is not done in short time. However I assume there may be a market for such a (powerful) tool.
I have been reading - while searching for ways to create a E-Book from Text-Files - that at least one publisher stopped using Latex for books exactly because he was not able to publish the books as PDF and E-book from the same source and had problems in converting files. http://www.opensourcepress.de/de/blog/2013/05/bye_bye_latex.php. The software they picked was AsciiDoc http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/index.html.

Volker Gottwald


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Von: Ulrike Fischer [mailto:***@nililand.de]
Gesendet: Montag, 29. September 2014 16:54
An: winedt+***@wsg.net
Betreff: [WinEdt] Re: E-Book from WinEdt?

Post by Gottwald - kreartiv
E-book files are mostly plain html. So if WinEdt could create a html
file from a Latex formatted text; this would help.

Winedt can't. In the same sense that winedt can't create a pdf-file:
Winedt is a editor. With it you can write text.

Winedt can call other tools like pdflatex or tex4ht. So when you have found the ideal converter then you naturally will be able to add a suitable button to winedt.

Beside the tools you already mentioned you could check pandoc and context.

--
Ulrike Fischer
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

[Ulrike Fischer]

Post by Gottwald - kreartiv
Ulrike,
Yes I know WinEdit ist an Editor, but a powerful one. Sure - And,
creating a PDF file is already integrated when you install it.

No. If you don't install a TeXsystem like miktex then winedt can't
do anything with a tex file. And if you don't install a pdf viewer
like adobe then winedt can't show you the pdf. On its own winedt can
write text. For the other things you need external tools. winedt is
good a using such external tools, but the external tools must exist.

You are asking on the wrong list.