From dcushman at cushmanroad.com  Mon Dec 16 00:32:40 2013
From: dcushman at cushmanroad.com (Dave Cushman)
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 19:32:40 -0500
Subject: [publican-list] Publican Website Creation
Message-ID: <52AE4A28.9050202@cushmanroad.com>

I'm attempting to publish a documentation website from my Fedora 19 
machine using Publican 3.2.1, but I haven't been successful in getting 
the content to display properly.  I'm following the instructions in 
Chapter 7 of the 3.2 Users' Guide for building the website manually.  
Everything appears to be going well, but when I attempt to browse to the 
website where I've published the content, I get 404 errors for the 
following files:

<server name>/docs/en-US/labels.js
<server name>/docs/en-US/products_menu.html
<server name>/docs/footer.html

I've attempted to restart the entire process a few times, and I've 
searched for these errors online, but no luck in solving the problem.  
Am I missing something simple?

Thank you for any help you can provide.



From zdover at redhat.com  Wed Dec 18 05:28:28 2013
From: zdover at redhat.com (Zac Dover)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:28:28 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [publican-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!
In-Reply-To: <702213112.19373862.1387344429936.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>

We are happy to announce the release of Publican 4.0!

The highest-priority fixes and enhancements in this release add the ability of Publican to use DocBook 5 as an input format, add improvements to the presentation of Publican-driven websites, and improve your control over and navigation of your Publican-generated documents.

Docbook 5 is now supported as an input format, and Docbook 5-compatible templates are now included in Publican. You can start using DocBook 5 for your new book projects straight away, and there's no more need to downconvert docs when collaborating with other projects!

Publican 4 includes numerous improvements to presentation and enhancements to navigation. It is now possible to organize books by category: this is an improvement upon the previous organization mechanism, which permitted sorting only by alphabetical order. Navigation for documents without multi-page HTML format has been added, so if all you've got is a PDF, you can ship just that in a Publican-driven website. Finally, translators can now control the sort order of glossary entries in their languages, so there's no need to avoid glossaries any more!

A large number of presentation issues have been improved in Publican 4. The subtitle element now takes its size from the preceding title. Publican 4 now includes support for SVG graphics in Internet Explorer 8 and up. Improvements to PDF processing ensure that Indic language PDFs now build correctly. <imageobject>, <textobject>, <package>, <example>, and <option> XML tags are now rendered properly. The presentation of CSS styles in EPUB format has been improved: this improves the presentation of admonitions, <screen> tags, <programlisting>s, and removes the web footer tag from EPUB output. OPF manifests and internal identifiers have also been improved in EPUB output.

Several improvements have been made for translators and consumers of translated content. In addition to the glossary issue already mentioned, a new feature provides a notification when a translation is older than the document in the source language.

Thanks to everyone involved in Publican 4.0 testing and documentation!

For a more complete list of features, see the Publican 4.0 Release Notes available shortly from:
http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/index.html

The Publican source is available from:

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/publican-4.0.0-0.fc19.src.rpm (SRPM)
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/Publican-v4.0.0.tar.gz (tarball)

We expect to ship Publican 4.0.0 in Fedora by the end of the month.

Zac Dover
Team Publican



From misty at redhat.com  Wed Dec 18 07:21:41 2013
From: misty at redhat.com (Misty Stanley-Jones)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:51:41 +0530
Subject: [publican-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!
In-Reply-To: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
References: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <83A4615E-8AE5-4592-8F11-A1DDFB4A4616@redhat.com>

Congratulations to the Publican team! And what an amazing set of new features and improvements. :)

On Dec 18, 2013, at 10:58 AM, Zac Dover <zdover at redhat.com> wrote:

> We are happy to announce the release of Publican 4.0!
> 
> The highest-priority fixes and enhancements in this release add the ability of Publican to use DocBook 5 as an input format, add improvements to the presentation of Publican-driven websites, and improve your control over and navigation of your Publican-generated documents.
> 
> Docbook 5 is now supported as an input format, and Docbook 5-compatible templates are now included in Publican. You can start using DocBook 5 for your new book projects straight away, and there's no more need to downconvert docs when collaborating with other projects!
> 
> Publican 4 includes numerous improvements to presentation and enhancements to navigation. It is now possible to organize books by category: this is an improvement upon the previous organization mechanism, which permitted sorting only by alphabetical order. Navigation for documents without multi-page HTML format has been added, so if all you've got is a PDF, you can ship just that in a Publican-driven website. Finally, translators can now control the sort order of glossary entries in their languages, so there's no need to avoid glossaries any more!
> 
> A large number of presentation issues have been improved in Publican 4. The subtitle element now takes its size from the preceding title. Publican 4 now includes support for SVG graphics in Internet Explorer 8 and up. Improvements to PDF processing ensure that Indic language PDFs now build correctly. <imageobject>, <textobject>, <package>, <example>, and <option> XML tags are now rendered properly. The presentation of CSS styles in EPUB format has been improved: this improves the presentation of admonitions, <screen> tags, <programlisting>s, and removes the web footer tag from EPUB output. OPF manifests and internal identifiers have also been improved in EPUB output.
> 
> Several improvements have been made for translators and consumers of translated content. In addition to the glossary issue already mentioned, a new feature provides a notification when a translation is older than the document in the source language.
> 
> Thanks to everyone involved in Publican 4.0 testing and documentation!
> 
> For a more complete list of features, see the Publican 4.0 Release Notes available shortly from:
> http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/en-US/Publican/index.html
> 
> The Publican source is available from:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/publican-4.0.0-0.fc19.src.rpm (SRPM)
> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/p/u/publican/Publican-v4.0.0.tar.gz (tarball)
> 
> We expect to ship Publican 4.0.0 in Fedora by the end of the month.
> 
> Zac Dover
> Team Publican
> 
> _______________________________________________
> publican-list mailing list
> publican-list at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list
> Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican
> 
> 

Misty Stanley-Jones, RHCE 
Manager, Content Services (Middleware)
Direct: + 61 7 3514 8105 / Mobile: +61 429 595 932  (TZ: GMT+10)
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From dmison at redhat.com  Wed Dec 18 08:04:53 2013
From: dmison at redhat.com (Darrin Mison)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:04:53 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [publican-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!
In-Reply-To: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
References: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <53C6B0A7-45B2-4140-A52B-A0647CC1FE7C@redhat.com>


> Finally, translators can now control the sort order of glossary entries in their languages, so there's no need to avoid glossaries any more!

\o/ OMG OMG OMG \o/

There is only one way I can express how I feel about this :-)

http://youtu.be/l8JCX9E0bEI

--
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"I'm not a JBoss Developer, I just play one on TV"
Senior Technical Writer - Engineering Content Services, Red Hat, Inc.
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From lbailey at redhat.com  Wed Dec 18 08:06:39 2013
From: lbailey at redhat.com (Laura Bailey)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 03:06:39 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [publican-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!
In-Reply-To: <53C6B0A7-45B2-4140-A52B-A0647CC1FE7C@redhat.com>
References: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
	<53C6B0A7-45B2-4140-A52B-A0647CC1FE7C@redhat.com>
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Pretty sure I can't say it better than this except by flailing and shrieking in person. :D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrin Mison" <dmison at redhat.com>
To: "Zac Dover" <zdover at redhat.com>
Cc: doc-i18n-list at redhat.com, "ECS" <content-services-list at redhat.com>, publican-list at redhat.com
Sent: Wednesday, 18 December, 2013 6:04:53 PM
Subject: Re: Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!


> Finally, translators can now control the sort order of glossary entries in their languages, so there's no need to avoid glossaries any more!

\o/ OMG OMG OMG \o/

There is only one way I can express how I feel about this :-)

http://youtu.be/l8JCX9E0bEI

--
Darrin Mison
"I'm not a JBoss Developer, I just play one on TV"
Senior Technical Writer - Engineering Content Services, Red Hat, Inc.
RHCE - RHCJA #111-092-417

-- 
Laura Bailey
Technical Writer II
RHEL Base OS Docs Lead
Red Hat Engineering Content Services BNE



From Norman at dunbar-it.co.uk  Wed Dec 18 20:11:44 2013
From: Norman at dunbar-it.co.uk (Norman Dunbar)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:11:44 +0000
Subject: [publican-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!
In-Reply-To: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
References: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <52B20180.60505@dunbar-it.co.uk>

On 18/12/13 05:28, Zac Dover wrote:
> We are happy to announce the release of Publican 4.0!

Sadly, I think I've broken it already. I built from source and then did 
a test create of a book:

$ publican create --type=book --name=Hello --lang=en-US
FATAL ERROR: en-US/Book_Info.xml:
No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser/Expat.pm line 470.
  at line 123, column 0, byte 4432
Handler couldn't resolve external entity at line 123, column 0, byte 4432
error in processing external entity reference at line 123, column 0, 
byte 4432
error in processing external entity reference at line 3, column 1, byte 
163 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187.
  at /usr/local/bin/publican line 528.


:-(

This upsets me quite a lot. I love Publican, and I've been using 3.2.1 
for a while now, built from source, on my Linux Mint 15 set up. 
Something broke Publican in a recent Mint update, so I was overjoyed to 
read that Publican 4 was out now.

Ah well, I'll have a better play with it after Christmas, I have cider 
to drink! (Hi Jeff!)

Merry Christmas or whatever festival you follow in your culture to all 
"publicans" out there. Thanks for everything.

And all the best for 2014.


Cheers,
Norm.


-- 
Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Registered address:
27a Lidget Hill
Pudsey
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom
LS28 7LG

Company Number: 05132767



From noriko at redhat.com  Thu Dec 19 00:49:47 2013
From: noriko at redhat.com (Noriko Mizumoto)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:49:47 +1000
Subject: [publican-list] [doc-i18n-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it
	now!!!!
In-Reply-To: <53C6B0A7-45B2-4140-A52B-A0647CC1FE7C@redhat.com>
References: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
	<53C6B0A7-45B2-4140-A52B-A0647CC1FE7C@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <52B242AB.2040407@redhat.com>

O ***** M ***** G ***** !!!!!
thank you thank you thank you~~
CONGRATULATIONS and big thank you to Publican team \^o^/~

noriko

(2013?12?18? 18:04), Darrin Mison wrote:
>
> Finally, translators can now control the sort order of glossary 
> entries in their languages, so there's no need to avoid glossaries any 
> more!
>
> \o/ OMG OMG OMG \o/
>
> There is only one way I can express how I feel about this :-)
>
> http://youtu.be/l8JCX9E0bEI
>
> --
> Darrin Mison
> "I'm not a JBoss Developer, I just play one on TV"
> Senior Technical Writer - Engineering Content Services, Red Hat, Inc.
> RHCE - RHCJA #111-092-417
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> doc-i18n-list mailing list
> doc-i18n-list at redhat.com
> https://post-office.corp.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/doc-i18n-list



From jfearn at redhat.com  Thu Dec 19 01:22:37 2013
From: jfearn at redhat.com (Jeff Fearn)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:22:37 +1000
Subject: [publican-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!
In-Reply-To: <52B20180.60505@dunbar-it.co.uk>
References: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
	<52B20180.60505@dunbar-it.co.uk>
Message-ID: <52B24A5D.6050801@redhat.com>

On 12/19/2013 06:11 AM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> On 18/12/13 05:28, Zac Dover wrote:
>> We are happy to announce the release of Publican 4.0!
> 
> Sadly, I think I've broken it already. I built from source and then did a test create of a book:
> 
> $ publican create --type=book --name=Hello --lang=en-US
> FATAL ERROR: en-US/Book_Info.xml:
> No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser/Expat.pm line 470.
>  at line 123, column 0, byte 4432
> Handler couldn't resolve external entity at line 123, column 0, byte 4432
> error in processing external entity reference at line 123, column 0, byte 4432
> error in processing external entity reference at line 3, column 1, byte 163 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187.
>  at /usr/local/bin/publican line 528.
> 
> 
> :-(
> 
> This upsets me quite a lot. I love Publican, and I've been using 3.2.1 for a while now, built from source, on my Linux Mint 15 set up. Something broke Publican in a recent Mint update, so I was overjoyed to read that Publican 4 was out now.

Looks like this http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728885

Upgrading XML::TReeBuilder to 5.2 should fix that.

Missed upping that dep because it doesn't affect fedora users and that's what the people who are within dummy spitting range use ;)

> Ah well, I'll have a better play with it after Christmas, I have cider to drink! (Hi Jeff!)

I too hope to imbibe a socially acceptable amount of cider ;)

> Merry Christmas or whatever festival you follow in your culture to all "publicans" out there. Thanks for everything.
> 
> And all the best for 2014.

Happy Festivus!

Cheers, Jeff.

-- 
Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com>
Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineering & Development
Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
GPG: 0x0357E8F0



From bugzilla at redhat.com  Thu Dec 19 02:46:44 2013
From: bugzilla at redhat.com (bugzilla at redhat.com)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 02:46:44 +0000
Subject: [publican-list] [Bug 697366] Include DocBook 5-compatible templates
In-Reply-To: <bug-697366-264938@bugzilla.redhat.com>
References: <bug-697366-264938@bugzilla.redhat.com>
Message-ID: <bug-697366-264938-iHwPSBfZCp@bugzilla.redhat.com>

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697366

Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|VERIFIED                    |CLOSED
   Fixed In Version|                            |4.0.0
         Resolution|---                         |CURRENTRELEASE
        Last Closed|                            |2013-12-18 21:46:44



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From Norman at dunbar-it.co.uk  Thu Dec 19 18:13:38 2013
From: Norman at dunbar-it.co.uk (Norman Dunbar)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:13:38 +0000
Subject: [publican-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!
In-Reply-To: <52B24A5D.6050801@redhat.com>
References: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>	<52B20180.60505@dunbar-it.co.uk>
	<52B24A5D.6050801@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <52B33752.8030406@dunbar-it.co.uk>

On 19/12/13 01:22, Jeff Fearn wrote:

> Looks like this http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728885
>
> Upgrading XML::TReeBuilder to 5.2 should fix that.

Ok, I'll check that out after the festivities are over. My wife says I 
"need to get a life" - can't imagine what one of them is though!

> Missed upping that dep because it doesn't affect fedora users and that's what the people who are within dummy spitting range use ;)

I tried installing Fedora 20 recently, went well, until it patched 
itself, then flatly refused to load. :-(


> I too hope to imbibe a socially acceptable amount of cider ;)

In which case, cheers!


Cheers,
Norm.


-- 
Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Registered address:
27a Lidget Hill
Pudsey
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom
LS28 7LG

Company Number: 05132767



From jfearn at redhat.com  Thu Dec 19 22:12:06 2013
From: jfearn at redhat.com (Jeff Fearn)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:12:06 +1000
Subject: [publican-list] Publican 4.0 released!!! Get it now!!!!
In-Reply-To: <52B33752.8030406@dunbar-it.co.uk>
References: <2095406107.19373968.1387344508813.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>	<52B20180.60505@dunbar-it.co.uk>	<52B24A5D.6050801@redhat.com>
	<52B33752.8030406@dunbar-it.co.uk>
Message-ID: <52B36F36.8080005@redhat.com>

On 12/20/2013 04:13 AM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> On 19/12/13 01:22, Jeff Fearn wrote:
> 
>> Looks like this http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728885
>>
>> Upgrading XML::TReeBuilder to 5.2 should fix that.
> 
> Ok, I'll check that out after the festivities are over. My wife says I "need to get a life" - can't imagine what one of them is though!

I knew a guy who had one of them, got killed by a shark. Life is safer without having a life ;)

>> Missed upping that dep because it doesn't affect fedora users and that's what the people who are within dummy spitting range use ;)
> 
> I tried installing Fedora 20 recently, went well, until it patched itself, then flatly refused to load. :-(

Well once you get it booting you'll need to d/l the lovely RPMs I have for wkhtmltopdf, fully patched edition, from http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/wkhtmltopdf/ :D

Cheers, Jeff.

-- 
Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com>
Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineering & Development
Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
GPG: 0x0357E8F0



From jfearn at redhat.com  Thu Dec 19 22:24:25 2013
From: jfearn at redhat.com (Jeff Fearn)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:24:25 +1000
Subject: [publican-list] Publican Website Creation
In-Reply-To: <52AE4A28.9050202@cushmanroad.com>
References: <52AE4A28.9050202@cushmanroad.com>
Message-ID: <52B37219.7050308@redhat.com>

Hi dave, sorry for missing this email.

On 12/16/2013 10:32 AM, Dave Cushman wrote:
> I'm attempting to publish a documentation website from my Fedora 19 machine using Publican 3.2.1, but I haven't been successful in getting the content to display properly.  I'm following the instructions in Chapter 7 of the 3.2 Users' Guide for building the website manually.  Everything appears to be going well, but when I attempt to browse to the website where I've published the content, I get 404 errors for the following files:

These files get created/updated when you run update_site based upon what books are installed or settings in the site config file.
 
> <server name>/docs/en-US/labels.js

labels.js is based on the 'title' parameter from the site config and the names of installed books.

> <server name>/docs/en-US/products_menu.html

products_menu.html is based on installed books.

> <server name>/docs/footer.html

footer.html is based on 'footer' parameter from the site config.

> I've attempted to restart the entire process a few times, and I've searched for these errors online, but no luck in solving the problem.  Am I missing something simple?
> 
> Thank you for any help you can provide.

Can you confirm that title and footer are set in the site config, that you have at least one book installed, and that you ran update_site after that?

If that is all true, then can you search over your file system to see if those files are being created in the wrong place?

Cheers, Jeff.

-- 
Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com>
Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineering & Development
Red Hat Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
GPG: 0x0357E8F0



From herrold at owlriver.com  Fri Dec 20 20:38:00 2013
From: herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:38:00 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [publican-list] teaching Publican to emit 'mobi'
In-Reply-To: <mailman.0.1381435746.21398.publican-list@redhat.com>
References: <mailman.0.1381435746.21398.publican-list@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.03.1312051642140.5837@bjyevire.pbz>

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?

Thanks

-- Russ herrold



From norman at dunbar-it.co.uk  Fri Dec 20 20:44:21 2013
From: norman at dunbar-it.co.uk (=?utf-8?B?bm9ybWFuQGR1bmJhci1pdC5jby51aw==?=)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:44:21 +0000
Subject: [publican-list] =?utf-8?q?teaching_Publican_to_emit_=27mobi=27?=
Message-ID: <0MJ1gb-1VwZui3tU1-002diX@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de>

Evening,

I create mobi from epub, using Calibre, and have no problems with links etc.

I'm puzzled as to why you seem to have difficulty.

Publican and Calibre, what more is needed! ;-)


Cheers,
Norm.

Ps. Apologies for top posting, and excessive quoting. Laptop having 17 days holiday (ie powered down and left untouched) so I'm getting my email fix on my phone!


Sent from my HTC

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From: "R P Herrold" <herrold at owlriver.com>
To: <publican-list at redhat.com>
Subject: [publican-list] teaching Publican to emit 'mobi'
Date: Fri, Dec 20, 2013 20:38


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?

Thanks

-- Russ herrold

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From herrold at owlriver.com  Fri Dec 20 21:27:52 2013
From: herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:27:52 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [publican-list] teaching Publican to emit 'mobi'
In-Reply-To: <0MJ1gb-1VwZui3tU1-002diX@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de>
References: <0MJ1gb-1VwZui3tU1-002diX@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de>
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.03.1312201623260.10834@bjyevire.pbz>

On Fri, 20 Dec 2013, norman at dunbar-it.co.uk wrote:

> I create mobi from epub, using Calibre, and have no problems with links etc.
> 
> I'm puzzled as to why you seem to have difficulty.
> 
> Publican and Calibre, what more is needed! ;-)

a single command line friendly tool, suitable for scripting, 
that generates the maximally featureful native formats for 
each?

Calibre has lost internal cross-references from LaTeX authored 
files de-converted from PDFs to ebook friendly sizes in my 
past experience

-- Russ herrold



From dcushman at cushmanroad.com  Sat Dec 21 12:38:33 2013
From: dcushman at cushmanroad.com (Dave Cushman)
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 07:38:33 -0500
Subject: [publican-list] Publican Website Creation
In-Reply-To: <52B37219.7050308@redhat.com>
References: <52AE4A28.9050202@cushmanroad.com> <52B37219.7050308@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <52B58BC9.2020809@cushmanroad.com>

Hi, Jeff.  No worries.  I decided to try version 2.1 in CentOS 6.5. I'm 
now able to publish a working website.

I see that Fedora and Publican have both released new versions, so I 
might give those a try, but for now, version 2.1 seems to be working for me.

Just in case anyone else is having similar issues, I did attempt to go 
back and try your suggestions.  I think I've done everything you 
mentioned, but I still don't see labels.js or products_menu.html.  I 
searched my file system but it returned nothing.  It's possible I'm 
still doing something wrong.

Dave

On 12/19/2013 5:24 PM, Jeff Fearn wrote:
> Hi dave, sorry for missing this email.
>
> On 12/16/2013 10:32 AM, Dave Cushman wrote:
>> I'm attempting to publish a documentation website from my Fedora 19 machine using Publican 3.2.1, but I haven't been successful in getting the content to display properly.  I'm following the instructions in Chapter 7 of the 3.2 Users' Guide for building the website manually.  Everything appears to be going well, but when I attempt to browse to the website where I've published the content, I get 404 errors for the following files:
> These files get created/updated when you run update_site based upon what books are installed or settings in the site config file.
>   
>> <server name>/docs/en-US/labels.js
> labels.js is based on the 'title' parameter from the site config and the names of installed books.
>
>> <server name>/docs/en-US/products_menu.html
> products_menu.html is based on installed books.
>
>> <server name>/docs/footer.html
> footer.html is based on 'footer' parameter from the site config.
>
>> I've attempted to restart the entire process a few times, and I've searched for these errors online, but no luck in solving the problem.  Am I missing something simple?
>>
>> Thank you for any help you can provide.
> Can you confirm that title and footer are set in the site config, that you have at least one book installed, and that you ran update_site after that?
>
> If that is all true, then can you search over your file system to see if those files are being created in the wrong place?
>
> Cheers, Jeff.
>



From hertzog at debian.org  Sun Dec 22 08:00:01 2013
From: hertzog at debian.org (Raphael Hertzog)
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:00:01 +0100
Subject: [publican-list] teaching Publican to emit 'mobi'
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.03.1312201623260.10834@bjyevire.pbz>
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	<alpine.LRH.2.03.1312201623260.10834@bjyevire.pbz>
Message-ID: <20131222080001.GA17256@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com>

On Fri, 20 Dec 2013, R P Herrold wrote:
> a single command line friendly tool, suitable for scripting, 
> that generates the maximally featureful native formats for 
> each?

calibre provides the command line tool ebook-convert.

> Calibre has lost internal cross-references from LaTeX authored 
> files de-converted from PDFs to ebook friendly sizes in my 
> past experience

In order to get a good .mobi, you need to start with a good .epub.

Note that for publishing on Amazon, they do advise to use their own
conversion tool (KindleGen).

Cheers,
-- 
Rapha?l Hertzog ? Debian Developer

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