[publican-list] teaching Publican to emit 'mobi'

[Jeff Fearn]

On 12/21/2013 06:38 AM, R P Herrold wrote:
> Thanks for Publican 4.0 ... I am trying a build on the RHEL 7 
> beta candidate as I type this
> 
> One thing is a small 'nit' about Publican, is the absence of 
> output support for the Amazon e-reader family. [If I am wrong, 
> please advise] I see this bug open:
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781837
> 
> and before that mailing list discussions of supporting AMZN 
> readers with AWZ or mobi (that latter being the 
> 'non-proprietary' variant their readers support)
> 
> The conversion tools are nice and all, I guess, but lose live 
> links, images, and more.  Is there a later re-statement of 
> what is entailed in adding /mobi/ as a native output format?

1: investigate & compare upstream tools
2: package selected tool
3: integrate selected tool
4: test

I'd estimate two weeks dedicated effort.

Cheers, Jeff.