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Build PDF version
The current build script no longer builds the PDF. However, it should be easy to adapt the task that builds the EPUB into a task that generates one massive LaTeX file, using the old LaTeX template.
If this is done, it should be easy to host the resulting pdf.
I'm actually surprised that the html build is not going this route - using htlatex as the last step, TeX->html.
Well, could you (in the past?) generate such a TeX file? (perhaps I don't understand what "old LaTeX template" is)
We compiled to LaTeX in the past, using a LaTeX template (a la Pandoc). However, the primary format of PLFA is HTML. LaTeX is secondary. Therefore, generating the HTML via htlatex would be suboptimal.
TeX does a very good job of typesetting; besides, PDF may be used as (or converted to) an epub (which would alleviate the issue of epub breaking now and then)
Please elaborate on the methods for converting PDFs to accessible EPUBs, and what the advantages are over compiling from HTML to EPUB (which is also HTML).
I don't know much about accessible epubs.
But currently if your devices (e.g. they only do Google's Play Books stuff) won't take your epub, you're SOL. If a PDF was available, it would be helpful. In particular as Google's Play Books accepts PDFs, and converts them to epubs (or one can just use a PDF reader).
I don't know much about accessible epubs.
But currently if your devices (e.g. they only do Google's Play Books stuff) won't take your epub, you're SOL. If a PDF was available, it would be helpful. In particular as Google's Play Books accepts PDFs, and converts them to epubs (or one can just use a PDF reader).
Converting PDF to EPUB is a terribly lossy operation.
You're free to resurrect the code that once built the PDF version; it's still in the Git history. That is the purpose of this issue page.