How often do you use inline images? <p> wrapper is really useful?

Deirdre Saoirse Moen deirdre at deirdre.net
Thu Mar 6 21:25:31 EST 2014


I was using:

XSL-FO + FOP
http://deirdre.net/making-book-a-technological-evolution/

Nowadays, you can do it at the command line on a Mac, though, so no more Java toolchain bits. (And there was much rejoicing!)

man textutil

On Mar 6, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls at hotmail.com> wrote:


> Deirdre,

>

> Just curious. What did you use to "massage" XML into PDF/RTF?

>

> Virgil

>

> On 3/6/2014 3:21 PM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:

>> I should add to my point that the primary reason I use Markdown is for writing prose that will be converted into EPUB or XML.

>>

>> Back before EPUB became a thing, I used XML/XSLT to massage it into PDF/RTF for submission. These days, it's about EPUB for publication, mostly (though I still use the other for some pieces).

>>

>> On Mar 6, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote:

>>

>>> EPUBs need to be valid XHTML, so it's still relevant.

>> Deirdre

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