fsfs3

Scripts to convert "Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman, 3rd Edition" from Texinfo to EPUB and MOBI

• Version: 1.0.0
• Date: 2016-09-13
• Developer: Alberto Pettarin
• License: the GPL license, version 3 (GPLv3)
• Contact: click here

Download Pre-Built eBooks

If you just want to download the pre-built EPUB or MOBI eBooks of Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman, 3rd Edition, the files are located in the Release tab.

Build From Source

Clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/pettarin/fsfs3.git

or download the master as a ZIP file and decompress it.

Enter the fsfs3 directory:

$ cd fsfs3

To download the Texinfo source files and covert them to EPUB and MOBI, run:

$ bash 000_convert_fsfs3.sh

Alternatively, you can run each step separately:

# download and uncompress Texinfo source
bash "100_download_uncompress_source.sh"

# convert Texinfo to LaTeX
bash "200_texi_to_tex.sh"

# patch LaTeX sources
bash "300_patch_tex.sh"

# run tex4ebook
bash "400_run_tex4ebook.sh"

# patch EPUB sources
bash "500_patch_epub.sh"

# compress output EPUB and MOBI
bash "600_output_ebooks.sh"

The compiled ebooks will be located inside the output/ directory.

To clean the working directory:

$ bash 999_clean.sh

Requirements

To build from source, you need:

1. Bash (with tar, zip, etc.)
2. Python 2.7.x or 3.x
3. tex4ebook
4. kindlegen in your $PATH (for MOBI output)

License

The scripts in fsfs3 are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).