[OS X TeX] LaTeX to ePub Format ???

[Adam M. Goldstein]

On Apr 4, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:

> On Apr 4, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Sam Bradley wrote:
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>> Folks, with the recent interest in the Apple iPad (even my wife wants one to read books in bed), I wondered if there is a way of 'compiling' LaTeX into the ePub format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB) instead of .pdf format.  Any ideas?  Thanks.  Sam.....
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> I don't know about ePub output from LaTex but--
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> http://epub2go.com/Web/default.aspx
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> will convert PDF to ePub, supposedly.
> 
> It looks like there's other similar tools out there.

I just tried this. It doesn't preserve the font, rendering everything in a Times-New-Roman-like font, which doesn't have ligatures, so "ff" looked strange.

I didn't try it with formulae or anything else tricky.

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