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Creating the EPUB Reader's Edition
Convert LaTeX to EPUB 3 on Your Own Computer
Convert your LaTeX source to EPUB 3 on your own computer. Learn the discipline behind a Claude skill that reads your file and generates the build files that run the conversion. See the failures that shaped the skill and adapt it to your own setup.
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Do you write in LaTeX and want an EPUB 3 of your book that passes EPUBCheck validation, built without leaving your own computer?
This book comes with a Claude skill, latex2epub3-pipeline, attached on Leanpub, and teaches you how to use it and adapt it. The skill reads your .tex file in full, works out how your document is set up, and generates the configuration files, post-processor, and build script with the exact commands that your source needs.
The skill never runs the conversion itself; you run a single script on your computer. MiKTeX's tools (tex4ebook, make4ht, and related packages) do the conversion. A Python post-processor then brings the result to the EPUB 3.3 revision of the standard, and EPUBCheck validates it. If a build fails, you bring the error back to the same conversation and the skill checks it against what it already knows about your file.
On top of those tools, the skill and the book add a design that checks its own work. Once you adapt it to your LaTeX setup, it should work on your files and on any later documents that share their structure.
What you will learn
- What a Claude skill is and how to run this one
- How to set up the toolchain: MiKTeX, Python and EPUBCheck
- Why the skill was designed to check its own work and never rewrite itself
- What the configuration, the build file and the post-processor each change in the conversion, and where the process is awkward
- What broke along the way, including a conversion that hangs, an @ character in a file name, and a macro that injects stray content into the title, and what caused each
- How to adapt the skill to your own LaTeX setup and formatting conventions
- How to run a three-stage test protocol on your own files, so you can see for yourself what each piece does
- How the same method could extend beyond EPUB 3, for example to Markua from make4ht's cleaned-up HTML5 output
Who this book is for
Any authors who write in LaTeX, such as technical writers and self-publishers, who want an EPUB 3 of their sources and are comfortable running commands in a terminal. The skill covers one conversion, from .tex to EPUB 3. The closing part of the book shows how the same method could extend to other targets.
Author
About the Author
Abdurrahman Tukur
A master's student in applied mathematics specializing in disease epidemiology modeling; a zbMATH Open reviewer writing post-publication reviews to help visitors assess papers' relevance to their research needs; and a writer committed to science communication and personal essay writing.
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