[tei-council] streamlining release procedures

[Martin Holmes]

Over an hour ago, I started Calibre at the command line converting the 
latest ePub version of the Glines to mobi. It's still running.

So we may be stuck with kindlegen.

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-01-20 11:09 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> That's a great idea. I'm running a conversion right now using the
> command-line Calibre ebook-convert, from the latest ePub build on Jinks,
> and I'll post the resulting .mobi to the web so people with Kindles can
> test it. (I don't have access to one.)
>
> It's taking a few minutes, and it's already thrown up a few errors, but
> they don't look like show-stoppers (complaints about webkit-prefixed CSS
> properties etc.).
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On 13-01-20 10:27 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>> What if we replace kindlegen with calibre?  While it doesn't produce PRC
>> as an output format, it can do MOBI and the newer Kindle formats:
>>
>> http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#what-formats-does-app-support-conversion-to-from
>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Format_support_by_device
>>
>> --Kevin
>>
>> On 1/20/13 1:16 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> Wonderful work by Sebastian!
>>>
>>> My Jinks, which doesn't do kindlegen (nasty closed-source proprietary
>>> etc. etc.) is down to 23 minutes. But I think we'll end up putting
>>> kindlegen on mine eventually, because otherwise it's not a true
>>> alternative source for our products.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> On 13-01-20 10:02 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>>> Some things I can't help
>>>> (like the ever-damned Amazon "kindlegen" programme, and TeX)