MOBI format for DOCs
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Hello Ken, On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 22:13, Ken Langer <k.langer@arkadin.com> wrote:
If possible, could you include the docs in MOBI format?
Since Python 3.2, we started to ship documentation in EPUB format, meant to be read by mobile devices. AFAIK MOBI is used only on Palm devices, and it seems some are also able to read EPUB. What's exactly the reason for your request. It seems Palm is going to be less and less used, do we really need this format? Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Sandro Tosi wrote:
Since Python 3.2, we started to ship documentation in EPUB format, meant to be read by mobile devices. AFAIK MOBI is used only on Palm devices, and it seems some are also able to read EPUB. What's exactly the reason for your request. It seems Palm is going to be less and less used, do we really need this format?
Sandro, MOBI is the native format for the Amazon Kindle. Given the popularity of this device, I think it might be a good idea to support MOBI alongside EPUB. Nick -- Dr Nick Efford, School of | E: N.D.Efford@leeds.ac.uk Computing, University of | T: +44 113 343 6809 Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK | W: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/nde/ --------------------------+----------------------------------------- PGP fingerprint: 6ADF 16C2 4E2D 320B F537 8F3C 402D 1C78 A668 8492
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 20:47, Nick Efford <N.D.Efford@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Sandro Tosi wrote:
Since Python 3.2, we started to ship documentation in EPUB format, meant to be read by mobile devices. AFAIK MOBI is used only on Palm devices, and it seems some are also able to read EPUB. What's exactly the reason for your request. It seems Palm is going to be less and less used, do we really need this format?
Sandro,
MOBI is the native format for the Amazon Kindle.
Oh, I didn't know that, and from what I read on Internet, Kindle doesn't support EPUB.
Given the popularity of this device, I think it might be a good idea to support MOBI alongside EPUB.
I agree, so we just need to make Sphinx (our doc generator) support MOBI - Georg, is this already in program or brand new request? Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
Sandro/Nick: Thanks for considering on this as a new format. Just out of curiosity, does this mean you will move forward with this? If so, will you do it only for 3.x or for 2.7 and 3.x? If you need help confirming the output, let me know. Ken -----Original Message----- From: matrixhasu@gmail.com [mailto:matrixhasu@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sandro Tosi Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 4:11 PM To: Nick Efford Cc: Ken Langer; docs@python.org; Georg Brandl Subject: Re: [docs] MOBI format for DOCs On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 20:47, Nick Efford <N.D.Efford@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Sandro Tosi wrote:
Since Python 3.2, we started to ship documentation in EPUB format, meant to be read by mobile devices. AFAIK MOBI is used only on Palm devices, and it seems some are also able to read EPUB. What's exactly the reason for your request. It seems Palm is going to be less and less used, do we really need this format?
Sandro,
MOBI is the native format for the Amazon Kindle.
Oh, I didn't know that, and from what I read on Internet, Kindle doesn't support EPUB.
Given the popularity of this device, I think it might be a good idea to support MOBI alongside EPUB.
I agree, so we just need to make Sphinx (our doc generator) support MOBI - Georg, is this already in program or brand new request? Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 21:57, Ken Langer <k.langer@arkadin.com> wrote:
Sandro/Nick:
Thanks for considering on this as a new format. Just out of curiosity, does this mean you will move forward with this? If so, will you do it only for 3.x or for 2.7 and 3.x? If you need help confirming the output, let me know.
No, it just means that we need to find someone willing to dedicate time to writing a Sphinx generator for the MOBI file format. Once we have that, we can talk about shipping the new documentation format. Retgards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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