WIP on ePub #94
WIP on ePub #94
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| @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ impl MDBook { | |||
| .set_src(&root.join("src")) | |||
| .set_dest(&root.join("book")) | |||
| .to_owned(), | |||
| renderer: Box::new(HtmlHandlebars::new()), | |||
| renderer: Box::new(Pandoc::new()), | |||
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This is just temporary to make local testing easier, but curious how we see this playing out long term. Should the mdbook command line support a new argument? Default to using all the available renderers?
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In the long term I guess it would be nice if the user could choose a couple of formats in his book.json and on build all formats would be exported. This needs a little bit of thinking to come up with a good design:
- How to handle the automatic switching of renderers
- Where to export, currently the html version is exported in
bookdir but where would pdf, epub, ... go?
Not often, but if we agree on some date / time I can come online ;)
That would be awesome! I have been wanting to rewrite how mdBook works internally so that it would be easier to implement / enable / disable different renderers, themes and plug-ins for extra functionality. Because currently you can only have one renderer and this rendererer is not completely isolated into its own module to just swap it out. I have experimented with some designs but didn't get far. The problem is that I feel like it would be a shame to put a lot of effort in writing the EPUB / PDF / MOBI renderer now and have to rewrite it when that new API is implemented. On the other hand I don't want to block new features as I have nothing concrete yet and it will probably take more time than I expect. Maybe we could work together on that rewrite, we could discuss ideas about the new API. You could concentrate more on implementing the renderer and I could get useful feedback about how bad my ideas are. 😉 It will probably take more time, but I think it could be beneficial in the end and I would feel less guilty of making you do unnecessary work! Now that you know that, I leave the choice up to you. Don't feel obligated in any way! :) |
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I am going to close this, as it has been inactive for some time |
I think a minimal useful version of this would:
MDBookand concat them