EPUB or MOBI support about decisionmaking

[kasravi]

have you seen pop-notes for your side notes?
from this page: https://publisha.github.io/pages/footnotes

The pop-up note reference is supported by Apple in their iBooks app for MACs and iOS on tablets etc. It is also documented that later Kobo devices also support pop-up notes.

It is also supported on later models of the Kindle when an ePub is converted to the MOBI format.

Other devices and software that cannot support pop-up notes will simply function as hyperlinks to the list of notes at the end of the chapter or section

[mykelk]

Thanks! We can explore this. The immediate focus at the moment is getting a PDF finalized so that it can go to print. I'd also want to make sure that the equations look good.

[quintrino]

Hoping for a this too, I generally prefer to read on an e-reader to supporting formats other than PDF would be fantastic.

[mykelk]

I started to play with Calibre to try converting, but it reflows the text and ends up turning everything into a mess. Are there conversion tools for EPUB and MOBI that preserve the formatting? I'm happy to give anything you suggest a try. I don't expect that this book (and other Tufte style books) would do very well on a small Kindle, but it would work well in a PDF viewer on a larger tablet.

[rejuvyesh]

https://pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/ might be of interest. epub/mobi are just zipped html files in a way.

[mykelk]

I was able to get the book into HTML using pdf2htmlEX on Ubuntu 20 and it looks good and preserves the formatting, equations, etc. However, converting it to EPUB / MOBI from either the PDF or HTML just results in a mess, at least using Calibre.

[AlexandrParkhomenko]

If anyone want the book in html formats, the formulas need convert to MathML, or convert to images. I have no idea why pdf is bad.

[mykelk]

Yeah, I think we will only support PDF, but if others want to convert it to whatever other format, they can do that on their own. I think most e-readers support PDF anyway. The HTML version looks pretty good:

(That's a screenshot from our other book as HTML.)