DLang Spec rewrite (?)

[Borden]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 01:57:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> This is a worthy goal. We manage to generate mobi files for the 
> spec (and Phobos in a pull request), is the ebook format very 
> different?
>
> Andrei

Good evening, Professor,

I'm still working through the ePUB standard, but, from what I can 
tell, the two are very similar. According to Wikipedia, ePub 
obsoletes Mobi (despite Amazon stubbornly enforcing Mobi (or some 
variant) for its Kindle). They both rely on similar standards, 
including OPF and NCX file formats, and ePUB uses XHTML and zip 
compression, thereby avoiding reinventing the wheel to the extent 
possible (although one would think that Docbook would make more 
sense for, you know, eBooks).

Actually, in generating my first ePUB of the DLang spec, I simply 
used the same mobi input files, copied-and-pasted two boilerplate 
ePUB files and zipped the whole thing up. Aside from some 
egregious formatting on my Kobo, it works. Of course, I want to 
take the time to generate a proper ePUB 3 file and use as much of 
the standard as possible to advantage.

Naturally, the goal is to extend whatever scripts I write to 
generate a DLang spec ePub to generate DDoc documentation eBooks, 
too, so I'm not entirely a one-issue person...