Currently we support:
* HTML4, XHTML 1.0
- * Plain text
-
-In the future, we plan to support:
-
+ * Plain text
* EPUB (XHTML based)
- * print-ready PDF
-
-
+ * print-ready PDF
+
Other features:
* extract DublinCore meta-data from documents;
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* lxml <http://codespeak.net/lxml/>, version 2.2 or later
+ * additional PDF converter dependencies:
+ * XeTeX with support for Polish language
+ * TeXML <http://getfo.org/texml/>
+ * recommended: morefloats LaTeX package, version >=1.0c
+ for dealing with documents with many motifs in one paragraph.
+ <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/morefloats.html>
Installation
Librarian uses standard Python distutils for packaging. After installing all the dependencies just run:
python setup.py install
-
+
+PDF converter also needs the Junicode-WL fonts (librarian/pdf/JunicodeWL-*.ttf) installed.
+In Debian/Ubuntu, put those files in ~/.fonts/ and run `fc-cache'.
Usage
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-To convert a series of file to XHTML:
+To convert a series of files to XHTML:
book2html file1.xml [file2.xml ...]
-To convert a series of file to plain text:
+To convert a series of files to plain text:
book2txt file1.xml [file2.xml ...]
+To convert a file to EPUB:
+
+ book2epub file.xml
+
+To convert a file to PDF:
+
+ book2pdf file.xml
+
To extract book fragments marked as "theme":
bookfragments file1.xml [file2.xml ...]