[chef] Re: Re: Re: Chef wiki in non-PDF form?

[Morgan Blackthorne < >]

The formatting was the issue. I'm not trying to use the wiki as a portable reference, I'm trying to read it like a book (since the only book out there I can find is the Test Driven one which isn't really a good intro to using Chef from what I've skimmed so far).

Alternatively, a mobile-friendly view for Confluence would work, too.

On Aug 2, 2012 11:10 AM, "Tim Green" < "> > wrote:

I just converted to ePub without any issues using Calibre (albeit the formatting doesn't look that good) - what was your issue?   Want me to upload the ePub somewhere for you?

If you've got a little bit of extra time, there's a pretty good ePub editing tool called Sigil that you could clean it up with.

Let me know.

-Tim

On Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Edward Morbius wrote:

A very, very strong second on this. I'm reading on an Android phone,

where PDFs are worse than useless, and ePubs are awesome (plug for the

Moon+Reader, free).

There's a third-party, non-free plugin for Atlassian to render output

to ePub. Alternatively, if there were a way to start with a

single-page HTML view, *and* strip much of the cruft (sidebars, etc.)

that accompany the wiki, this might also work.

My own sense is that ePub (or something very much like it) should

supplant PDF as the online documentation standard.

It even has wins over HTML, in that software manages ePub books well,

and tends to conform to end-user preferences for styling rather than

the author's. It's a format that's designed for reading and

readability, not a hybrid information / application platform, as HTML

is rapidly becoming.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Morgan Blackthorne

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I'm looking to read up on the wiki in my spare time, but on my Nook Color

(it's easier for me to read when my arthritis is acting up and I need to lay

down). However, the PDF format is.... not so good for an ereader.

Is there an alternative form like EPUB or MOBI or such that I could

download, or a script that I could use to generate it instead of the PDF?

That would be greatly appreciated (especially as I'm trying to recover from

having my eyes dilated yesterday; flowable text would work great with being

able to bump up the text size).

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