On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 06/11/11 Robert P. J. Day said:
>
> > i'm currently checking out some possibilities for ebook/epub
> > publishing but if someone has the recipe to do the following on my
> > ubuntu system, that would be ducky.
>
> All you need is a few files, and zip.
>
> Zipping up an epub book.
>
> Given an unzipped epub like this...
>
> .
> |-- content.opf
> |-- cover.jpg
> |-- index_split_0.xhtml
> |-- index_split_1.xhtml
> |-- index_split_2.xhtml
> |-- index_split_3.xhtml
> |-- index_split_4.xhtml
> |-- index_split_5.xhtml
> |-- index_split_6.xhtml
> |-- index_split_7.xhtml
> |-- META-INF
> | `-- container.xml
> |-- mimetype
> |-- stylesheet.css
> |-- titlepage.xhtml
> `-- toc.ncx
>
> You can zip it up with the following commands:
>
> zip -0X ~/mybook.epub mimetype
> zip -rDX9 ~/mybook.epub * -x mimetype
>
> The trick is populating those files. Unzip an existing .epub and examine them.
ironically, i started reading the OCF docs shortly before you posted
this so i'm getting a handle on EPUB technology. might have more
questions later.
rday
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