Build new tutorials as eBook (Trac #937)

[smk78]

The new tutorials need to be converted from .fodt to eBook.

However, at the time of writing ePub is not a valid !LibreOffice output filter.

There is a !LibreOffice extension available at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub

Otherwise the forums suggest converting the .fodt into something !PanDoc can then turn into ePub.

Also see SasView/sasview#643, SasView/sasview#1009, and SasView/sasview#1014

Migrated from http://trac.sasview.org/ticket/937

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[smk78]

Trac update at 2017/04/11 08:18:07: smk78 changed description from:

The new tutorials need to be converted from .fodt to eBook with !PanDoc.

Also see SasView/sasview#510, SasView/sasview#927, and SasView/sasview#934

to:

The new tutorials need to be converted from .fodt to eBook.

However, at the time of writing ePub is not a valid !LibreOffice output filter.

There is a !LibreOffice extension available at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub

Otherwise the forums suggest converting the .fodt into something PanDoc can then turn into ePub.

Also see SasView/sasview#510, SasView/sasview#927, and SasView/sasview#934

[smk78]

Trac update at 2017/04/11 08:18:25: smk78 changed description from:

The new tutorials need to be converted from .fodt to eBook.

However, at the time of writing ePub is not a valid !LibreOffice output filter.

There is a !LibreOffice extension available at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub

Otherwise the forums suggest converting the .fodt into something PanDoc can then turn into ePub.

Also see SasView/sasview#510, SasView/sasview#927, and SasView/sasview#934

to:

The new tutorials need to be converted from .fodt to eBook.

However, at the time of writing ePub is not a valid !LibreOffice output filter.

There is a !LibreOffice extension available at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Writer2ePub

Otherwise the forums suggest converting the .fodt into something !PanDoc can then turn into ePub.

Also see SasView/sasview#510, SasView/sasview#927, and SasView/sasview#934

[butlerpd]

Trac update at 2017/10/27 16:39:31: butler changed milestone from "SasView 4.2.0" to "SasView 4.3.0"

[butlerpd]

@smk78. Is this still something we want to work towards? Am guessing so but thinking at this point it is more aspirational? i.e we have no personpower for it nor is there a plan yet for what to do with ebook version beyond the html? Am going to move this to "whishlist" for the time being I think. If there is an idea of a plan (or an idea of a plan to have a plan:-) we can move it to the appropriate milestone.

[butlerpd]

@smk78. Actually just realized this should be an issue in the tutorials repo rather than sasview so moving it now

[butlerpd]

Another very old issue. Again looking towards contributor camp XII, wondering if we still want to keep this @smk78? Perhaps in fact we make it a discussion to see how many people feel that a pdf ebook would even be useful (much less worth the effort) at this point? The landscape, learning/reference methods and expectations have changed a lot since we first envisioned this so is this a case of the times having passed us by? or maybe not?