Re: ebook format

[Oliver Corff]

Hi,

this looks like a promising route:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325185

(not tried or tested yet, though I own a compatible device).

The processor of most e-readers seems to be similar to the one used in
the raspberry Pi series.

So if you can cross-compile groff for Pi, it should also work on e-readers.

Oliver.


On 6/16/21 2:01 PM, Wim Stockman wrote:
> If any one knows how to run groff on a e-reader. I d love that :-). Just
> vim and groff :-)
> Op wo 16 jun. 2021 10:25 schreef Oliver Corff <oliver.corff@email.de>:
>
> > On 16/06/2021 08:56, Dave Kemper wrote:
> >
> > > On 6/10/21, Deri <deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > Just out of interest, why do you dismiss pdf format for reading on the
> > kindle? I find you have
> > > > greater control over the way you want it to look using groff and pdf.
> > > As a creator, that may have some appeal.  But most readers won't be
> > > happy with this, because it means they can no longer resize the type
> > > and have the page adjust appropriately.  (They could if the device
> > > understood raw groff, but I'd be surprised if that were an option on
> > > any commercial tablet.)
> > Actually, a surprising number of ebook readers runs on some kind of
> > linux, so running groff should be possible.
> >
> > > As an alternative to disabling kerning, instructing groff to embed all
> > > the fonts in the PDF ("-e" option of gropdf, thus "-P -e" to groff)
> > > may help with this.  With this, the page should display identically
> > > across all viewers and devices.
> > Thank you for the suggestion, I'll try that.
> >
> > Oliver.
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