[Qgis-community-team] Publishing QGIS docs in ePub and/or HTML format

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Fabio,

thanks for your comments. At the moment, the latex sources with its styles
can not really be exported to sth. else than pdf. That's also the reason why
latex2html doesn't work. 

Once we migrated the texts to rst and build a usable tool infrastructure, we
will be able to provide html and ePub, too.

Regards
Otto

Am Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:23:26 +0100
schrieb Fabio Spelta <spelta at gmail.com>:

> Hello, I have been told in the forums
> http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9873&sid=1bc03f7f67d111f9263e163baaaaacee
> to write my suggestions here, so here I am.
> 
> Hello everybody. :)
> 
> That is, I could only find the PDF files of the documentation available for
> download.
> Briefly, my suggestion is: please consider building and publishing an HTML
> or (even
> better) a ePub version of the very same documents alongside with the PDFs.
> This would allow owners of ebook readers and smartphones, whose screen
> sizes are not huge,
> to read and enjoy :) QGIS documentation on their devices without the need
> to print it.
> 
> PDF is a very nice format but it is mostly for printing or to be read on a
> big screen, as a monitor.
> Being preformatted, it CAN be read on a ebook reader (or on a smartphone,
> as I am doing), but it's tricky, and uncomfortable. Any format that could
> adapt to the screen and font size would better fit those devices and if
> such a download would be available that would be the preferred choice
> for many, in my very humble opinion.
> 
> (by the way, I tried to build HTML out of the docs sources with the
> purpose to build a .ePub file to share, but I got this error from
> "make html":
> 
> latex2html -init_file l2h.conf  -split=+2 -dir gis_introduction -address "\
>        &copy; 2009 Chief Directorate: Spatial Planning \& Information,
> /bin/sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
> 
> 
> Thank you for caring!