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{{todo|This page is work in progress and an update to the current pages [[Epub]] and [[Epub_Sample]].}}
 
{{todo|This page is work in progress and an update to the current pages [[Epub]] and [[Epub_Sample]].}}
  
< [[XML]] | [[HTML]] | [[Epub|Old ePub docs]] | [[Epub_Sample|Old ePub Sample]] >
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< [[XML]] | [[Export]] | [[Epub|Old ePub docs]] | [[Epub_Sample|Old ePub Sample]] >
  
Beware, these ePub/HTML facilities of ConTeXt work only with MkIV since some version in December 2014 and require additional work on your source code!
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The ePub facilities of ConTeXt are based on its [[Export]] of XML/XHTML. Make sure you get useful export output from your project before you try ePub.
 
 
= Minimal example and structure of export files =
 
 
 
<texcode>
 
% mode=mkiv
 
\setupbackend[export=yes]
 
 
 
\starttext
 
\input tufte
 
\stoptext
 
</texcode>
 
 
 
If you compile this as {{code|1=minimal.tex}}, you get a directory structure like this:
 
 
 
<pre>
 
minimal.tex
 
minimal.log
 
minimal.pdf
 
minimal.tuc
 
minimal-export
 
├── cover.xhtml
 
├── images
 
├── minimal-div.xhtml
 
├── minimal-pub.lua
 
├── minimal-raw.xml
 
├── minimal-tag.xhtml
 
└── styles
 
    ├── minimal-defaults.css
 
    ├── minimal-images.css
 
    ├── minimal-styles.css
 
    └── minimal-templates.css
 
</pre>
 
 
 
We will further refer to these files without the prefix ("minimal-"). We reformatted the code copies a bit to make them smaller and better readable.
 
 
 
== div.xhtml ==
 
 
 
<xmlcode>
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
 
<!--
 
    input filename  : minimal
 
    processing date  : Sat Jan 17 17:43:58 2015
 
    context version  : 2014.12.29 10:01
 
    exporter version : 0.33
 
-->
 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
 
    <head>
 
        <meta charset="utf-8"/>
 
        <title></title>
 
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/minimal-defaults.css" />
 
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/minimal-images.css" />
 
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/minimal-styles.css" />
 
    </head>
 
    <body>
 
        <div class="warning">Rendering can be suboptimal because there is no default/fallback css loaded.</div>
 
<div>
 
We thrive in information--thick worlds because of our marvelous and everyday capacity to select, edit, single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge, harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense, reduce, boil down, choose, categorize, catalog, classify, list, abstract, scan, look into, idealize, isolate, discriminate, distinguish, screen, pigeonhole, pick over, sort, integrate, blend, inspect, filter, lump, skip, smooth, chunk, average, approximate, cluster, aggregate, outline, summarize, itemize, review, dip into, flip through, browse, glance into, leaf through, skim, refine, enumerate, glean, synopsize, winnow the wheat from the chaff and separate the sheep from the goats.
 
</div>
 
    </body>
 
</html>
 
</xmlcode>
 
 
 
== tag.xhtml ==
 
 
 
<xmlcode>
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
 
<!--
 
    input filename  : minimal
 
    processing date  : Sat Jan 17 17:43:58 2015
 
    context version  : 2014.12.29 10:01
 
    exporter version : 0.33
 
-->
 
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="styles/minimal-defaults.css" ?>
 
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="styles/minimal-images.css" ?>
 
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="styles/minimal-styles.css" ?>
 
<document href="minimal" language="en" date="Sat Jan 17 17:43:58 2015" context="2014.12.29 10:01" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" file="minimal" version="0.33">
 
We thrive in information--thick worlds because of our marvelous and everyday capacity to select, edit, single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge, harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense, reduce, boil down, choose, categorize, catalog, classify, list, abstract, scan, look into, idealize, isolate, discriminate, distinguish, screen, pigeonhole, pick over, sort, integrate, blend, inspect, filter, lump, skip, smooth, chunk, average, approximate, cluster, aggregate, outline, summarize, itemize, review, dip into, flip through, browse, glance into, leaf through, skim, refine, enumerate, glean, synopsize, winnow the wheat from the chaff and separate the sheep from the goats.
 
</document>
 
</xmlcode>
 
 
 
== raw.xml ==
 
 
 
<xmlcode>
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
 
<!--
 
    input filename  : minimal
 
    processing date  : Sat Jan 17 17:43:58 2015
 
    context version  : 2014.12.29 10:01
 
    exporter version : 0.33
 
-->
 
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="styles/minimal-defaults.css" ?>
 
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="styles/minimal-images.css" ?>
 
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="styles/minimal-styles.css" ?>
 
<document language="en" date="Sat Jan 17 17:43:58 2015" context="2014.12.29 10:01" xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" file="minimal" version="0.33">
 
We thrive in information--thick worlds because of our marvelous and everyday capacity to select, edit, single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge, harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense, reduce, boil down, choose, categorize, catalog, classify, list, abstract, scan, look into, idealize, isolate, discriminate, distinguish, screen, pigeonhole, pick over, sort, integrate, blend, inspect, filter, lump, skip, smooth, chunk, average, approximate, cluster, aggregate, outline, summarize, itemize, review, dip into, flip through, browse, glance into, leaf through, skim, refine, enumerate, glean, synopsize, winnow the wheat from the chaff and separate the sheep from the goats.
 
</document>
 
</xmlcode>
 
 
 
== pub.lua ==
 
 
 
<texcode>
 
return {
 
["htmlfiles"]={ "minimal-div.xhtml" },
 
["htmlroot"]="minimal-div.xhtml",
 
["identifier"]="3ce74458-4cdd-829d-ace4-cf535fb00519",
 
["imagefile"]="styles/minimal-images.css",
 
["imagepath"]="images",
 
["images"]={},
 
["language"]="en",
 
["name"]="minimal",
 
["stylepath"]="styles",
 
["styles"]={ "minimal-defaults.css", "minimal-images.css", "minimal-styles.css" },
 
["xhtmlfiles"]={ "minimal-tag.xhtml" },
 
["xmlfiles"]={ "minimal-raw.xml" },
 
}
 
</texcode>
 
  
 
= Minimal ePub =
 
= Minimal ePub =
  
If you run {{code|1=mtxrun --script epub --make minimal}} on above example, you get a structure like:
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If you already ran ConTeXt on your project and got the file structure as described in [[Export]], you can run {{code|1=mtxrun --script epub --make minimal}} to get a structure like:
  
 
<pre>
 
<pre>
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* ncx: table of contents
 
* ncx: table of contents
  
That’s nice, but the contents make no sense yet. We have to add more structure and metadata.
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= TODO =
 
 
= Required structuring =
 
 
 
The export contains usable content only for content that is "well structured" in an XML sense. That means, you need to mark everything, from markup spans over paragraphs and enumeration items to chapters and parts with {{code|1=\start... … \stop...}}, for example:
 
 
 
<texcode>
 
...
 
\startsection[title={A section}]
 
 
 
\startparagraph
 
 
 
\input tufte
 
 
 
\startitemize[packed,joinup]
 
  \startitem First \stopitem
 
  \startitem Second \stopitem
 
  \startitem Third \stopitem
 
  \startitem Fourth\stopitem
 
\stopitemize
 
 
 
\stopparagraph
 
 
 
\startparagraph
 
\input knuth
 
\stopparagraph
 
 
 
\startparagraph
 
\input hagen
 
\stopparagraph
 
 
 
\stopsection
 
...
 
</texcode>
 
 
 
= Useful example =
 
 
 
<texcode>
 
% mode=mkiv
 
\mainlanguage[en]
 
\setupbackend[export=yes]
 
 
 
\setupinteraction[state=start,
 
color=,contrastcolor=,
 
% This metadata is used for the PDF
 
title={My first eBook 1},
 
subtitle={},
 
keywords={},
 
author={Hans 1}
 
]
 
\setupexport[
 
hyphen=yes,
 
% This metadata is actually used for the ePub
 
% title, subtitle and author are taken from \setupinteraction, if not set
 
title={My first eBook 2},
 
subtitle={},
 
author={Hans 2}
 
]
 
\settaggedmetadata[
 
% here you can set as many metadata entries as you like, but you need to process them yourself
 
title={My first eBook 3},
 
author={Hans 3},
 
subtitle={},
 
version={\date} % TODO: doesn’t expand
 
]
 
 
 
\definehighlight[emph][style=italic] % use \emph{something} instead of {\em something}
 
 
 
\starttext
 
 
 
\startchapter[title=Tufte]
 
\startparagraph
 
\input tufte
 
\stopparagraph
 
\stopchapter
 
 
 
\startchapter[title=Quoth\footnote{by Edgar Allan Poe}]
 
\startlines
 
\quotation{Prophet!} said I, \quotation{thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!
 
By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—
 
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
 
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
 
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.}
 
\emph{Quoth the Raven \quotation{Nevermore.}}
 
\stoplines
 
\stopchapter
 
 
 
 
 
\stoptext
 
</texcode>
 
 
 
Only now we find significant differences between the three content output files:
 
 
 
(WORK IN PROGRESS)
 
 
 
= Further read =
 
 
 
Create extra pages for
 
* [[ePub_Cover]]
 
* [[ePub_ToC]]
 
* [[ePub_Readers]]
 
* [[ePub_Styling]]
 
* [[ePub_Images]]
 
* [[ePub_XML_Workflow]]
 
 
 
There’s an (outdated?) example of an export-friendly ConTeXt file in the sources: {{src|export-example.tex}}.
 
  
From {{src|back-exp.mkiv}}, is this still current?
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Write about
<texcode>
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* Cover
\setupexport
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* ToC
  [align=\number\raggedstatus,
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* Readers
  bodyfont=\bodyfontsize,
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* Styling
  width=\textwidth,
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* Images
  title={\directinteractionparameter\c!title}, % from interaction
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* Better workflow
  subtitle={\directinteractionparameter\c!subtitle}, % from interaction
 
  author={\directinteractionparameter\c!author}, % from interaction
 
% firstpage=, % imagename
 
% lastpage=,  % imagename
 
  hyphen=no]
 
</texcode>
 

Revision as of 14:06, 17 January 2015


TODO: This page is work in progress and an update to the current pages Epub and Epub_Sample. (See: To-Do List)


< XML | Export | Old ePub docs | Old ePub Sample >

The ePub facilities of ConTeXt are based on its Export of XML/XHTML. Make sure you get useful export output from your project before you try ePub.

Minimal ePub

If you already ran ConTeXt on your project and got the file structure as described in Export, you can run mtxrun --script epub --make minimal to get a structure like:

minimal.epub
minimal-epub
├── META-INF
│   └── container.xml
├── OEBPS
│   ├── cover.xhtml
│   ├── images
│   ├── minimal-div.xhtml
│   ├── minimal.opf
│   ├── nav.xhtml
│   ├── styles
│   │   ├── minimal-defaults.css
│   │   ├── minimal-images.css
│   │   └── minimal-styles.css
│   └── toc.ncx
└── mimetype
  • epub: The epub file is just a zipped version of the directory structure.
  • mimetype: contains only "application/epub+zip"
  • container.xml points to the root file "minimal.opf"
  • cover.xhtml is the cover image shown by ePub readers
  • opf: list of all resources, this keeps the "book" together. See also [OPF specs].
  • ncx: table of contents

TODO

Write about

  • Cover
  • ToC
  • Readers
  • Styling
  • Images
  • Better workflow