Re: epub version of Emacs manual (was: request for participating)

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/22/19 9:23 AM, Sam Qasbah wrote:
> It is not a simple conversion from texi
> to epub, but a craft work of organizing and adapting the files, rewriting
> the formatting and adding a cover with a "fascinating" flavor.

Thanks for volunteering; it looks like a worthwhile thing to have. A good way to
get started would be to propose a patch to the Emacs master version, to support
an epub manual. You can do this by sending email to address@hidden and
attach a patch, preferably in 'git format-patch' format; see
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38708> for an example.

However, I worry that this would mean there would be two versions of the Emacs
manual, the main one maintained by developers in .texi format, and the epub one
which presumably would lag behind the main one. We wouldn't, for example, want
to delay an Emacs release while waiting for the epub version to catch up. Is
there some way to avoid this problem, by automating the epub version generation?

Perhaps it would be better to live with a not-quite-so-nice conversion, if the
conversion could be automated more. For ideas along those lines, please see:

https://per.bothner.com/blog/2016/texinfo-roadmap/
https://github.com/jlhg/texinfo2epub
https://github.com/ikrukov/epub
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2018-07/msg00009.html