[OpenAFS] Kindle Editions of OpenAFS documentation

Patty O'Reilly oreilly@qualcomm.com
Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:55:13 -0700


Nice! Works great.

On 6/1/11 3:12 PM, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
> In message<87oc2hmo4d.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>,Russ Allbery writes:
>> I'm not sure about the most recent, but older Kindles absolutely will not
>> handle ePub.  Also, if the goal is to get it into the Amazon store, I'm
>> pretty sure it's going to have to be in MOBI format.
>
> they saw they dont.  but...
>
>> Like I said, though, it doesn't have to be an either/or thing.  Plus, I'll
>> point out that all the source is right there, available to you, for you to
>> make ePub format documentation.  Knock yourself out.
>
> so docbook provides an alpha/beta util for going from docbook to epub,
> dbtoepub.  i ran this on an older copy of the .xml of the useruide
> to get an .epub and then converted with mobipocketreader to .prc.
>
> i copied this over to my kindle and it looks pretty good, fonts looke
> right and the links work like they should.   files are in my public
> afs space.
>
> /afs/cmf/public/chas/auusg000.epub
> /afs/cmf/public/chas/auusg000.prc
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