https://github.com/philschatz/epub-assembler.js

Assemble an EPUB into a single file
https://github.com/philschatz/epub-assembler.js

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Assemble an EPUB into a single file

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/philschatz/epub-assembler.js
• Owner: philschatz
• Created: 2014-06-28T19:09:15.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-06-29T22:39:11.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-19T15:56:43.546Z (2 months ago)
• Language: CoffeeScript
• Size: 203 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Instructions:

There are 2 phases:

1. build an EPUB

1. build a single HTML file

## Build an EPUB

1. download [Connexions/rhaptos.cnxmlutils](https://github.com/Connexions/rhaptos.cnxmlutils) and place it in `./`

1. download a complete ZIP from cnx.org

1. unzip it into a directory (`./test-book`)

1. run `sh cnx2epub.sh '[email protected]' ./test-book ./test-epub-dir`

## Build a single HTML file

1. `npm install`

1. `node ./src/assembler.js -i ./test-epub-dir > ./single-file.xhtml`

You can now run `./single-file.xhtml` through a PDF generation tool to create a PDF.

# Bake the CSS into an HTML file

At this point you can use CSS Polyfills to do things like:

- move the glossaries to the back of the book

- add wrapper elements using `::outside::before::after` for styling features

- add an index

- collate sections/solutions to the end of a chapter

- collate the module abstracts to the start of a chapter (requires more code)

Here's how:

Install [philschatz/css-bake.js](https://github.com/philschatz/css-bake.js) globally or use the locally installed version (from `npm install`):

    ./node_modules/css-bake/bin/css-bake --input-html ./single-file.xhtml --input-css /path/to/css/file.less --output-html ./baked.xhtml --output-css ./baked.css

Now you can run `./baked.html` and `./baked.css` through a PDF-generation tool like `prince`.

## Notes:

1. once we switch to EPUBs for the transforms **Build an EPUB** can be skipped (please do not try to maintain that shell script)