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

[Edward Morbius < >]

Formatting in my case what utterly fouled up.  Blank pages, lots of
missing text, etc.  Certainly not usable.

I tried this on both Ubuntu 11.10 and Debian testing/unstable within
the past month or two.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Tim Green 
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 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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>  wrote:
>
> 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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> Dr. Ed Morbius
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Dr. Ed Morbius
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Krell Power Systems Unlimited