An ebook of my very own
Jan. 13th, 2011 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylAs something of an experiment, I decided to convert my MA thesis into an ebook. I did this by running the original LaTeX through
The process of cleaning up the HTML was surprisingly intensive and even after making quite a lot of changes to fix things, the results still aren't quite right. The title, which ought to be spread over four lines, is spread over four pages; words in italics seem to trigger paragraph breaks; and the less said about the format of the bibliography the better.
But I'm not really complaining: after a couple of hours of monkeying about, I've managed to produce a perfectly professional looking book that reads well — provided I ignore some of my less felicitous turns of phrase...
latex2html, messing with the results in emacs and converting the final HTML into mobipocket with Calibre.The process of cleaning up the HTML was surprisingly intensive and even after making quite a lot of changes to fix things, the results still aren't quite right. The title, which ought to be spread over four lines, is spread over four pages; words in italics seem to trigger paragraph breaks; and the less said about the format of the bibliography the better.
But I'm not really complaining: after a couple of hours of monkeying about, I've managed to produce a perfectly professional looking book that reads well — provided I ignore some of my less felicitous turns of phrase...
