On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:14:47AM +0100, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
The question is if PG should develop a simple markup based on for example XHMTL to accommodate the growing interest in more appealing texts and formats.
The bigger question is who is willing to spear-head the project and help retool the PG tool chain and make the move as easy as possible.
At least there does seem to be an interest.
regards Keith.
I thought this was announced on gutvol-d, but maybe not or it it was missed. There is a major initiative going on (though a small crew is doing most of the work) to set up an ePub processing chain at DP and to PG (the whitewasher's tool chain). Here's some good info about it: http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/EPUB There are various threads on DP forums about it, too. As Marcello mentioned in another post, RST is the markup, and it seems to be good for lots of content (not a panacea). Ultimately, I expect we'll have a mixture of hand-generated ePubs and auto-converted, with varying HTML. While this won't be a single master source (something that I, too, have wished for), it will result in more capable formats for a wider variety of devices than our existing tool chain is amenable to. -- Greg