[NTLUG:Discuss] good "book" format for html?

Val Harris val.harris at comcast.net
Sun Nov 28 09:33:51 CST 2004


Kevin Brannen wrote:
> I'm looking for a good format to hold books that are in HTML, something 
> that can hold the HTML, including any graphics (or other files) that 
> support it.  If I were in the MS world, the CHM format would probably be 
> what I wanted.  But, I want to use this in Linux, so an "open standard" 
> is really what I'm searching for.
> 
> Can anyone recommend anything they've seen, read about, whatever?
> 
> BTW, I'm really not searching for docbook and the other formats that 
> would require me to convert the HTML into something else.  I like HTML 
> because of it's simplicity and univerality.  Of course, this may all be 
> for naught if there is no decent reader (and generator), but I got 
> programming skilz :-) so I could create that if I can find a good enough 
> standard.  Thoughts?
> 
> TIA,
> Kevin
> 
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How about gzipped tar files?  Konqueror can read them just fine.

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