<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:48 AM, David Derbes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Some years ago a friend and I retyped, edited and otherwise modernized an old book in LaTeX (to PDF) for its subsequent reissue (<i>The Einstein Theory of Relativity</i> by Lillian and Hugh Lieber). The firm that reissued it, Paul Dry Books of Philadelphia, is thinking about doing it as an eBook. They have a firm that converts their books to ePub format and has done their non-technical stuff for a fee. The firm wants three times their usual fee for this one. I am hoping to find a much cheaper (or even free, with my sweat equity) solution. <div><br></div><div>I suspect that someone (or several someones) on this list have a very simple solution. Is there a package for turning a LaTeX'd book into ePub format? </div><div><br></div><div>The free program Calibre can do PDF to ePub, but they say that PDF's are just terrible for conversion. My hope is that there is a better approach than LaTeX->PDF->ePub via Calibre. </div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Summarizing some items from the list this February:</div><br><div>Claus Gerhardt wrote (2/4/12):</div><div><br></div><div>Attached are a shell script and an Applescript using htlatex with the option xhtml; they will convert almost any mathematical tex source file into an html file which will look beautiful in Safari and probably in any other browser.<br><br>I tested it with an arbitrary paper of mine and the result pleasantly surprised me. The equations will be scalable. <br><br>Claus<br></div></body></html>