[Docutils-users] EPub?

[Matěj C. <mc...@ce...>]

How do people here generate EPub archives from their rST? I see 
on http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/links.html#epub the 
following three options, but I am not happy with either:

1. pandoc — I just do not like HTML it produces, it does not 
   support some rST constructs I want to use (..include) and it 
   cannot work with some other tools for rST.

2. rst2epub from https://bitbucket.org/wierob/rst2epub — the 
   last commit from 2013-05-12 and it shows. Seems to break on 
   non-ASCII titles (I am Czech, so it is point of no way for 
   me), and of course it does not seem to support ..include.

3. rst2epub2 from https://github.com/mattharrison/rst2epub2 
   — last commit 2016-05-06 and that was mine pull request ;).  
   Again, it does not seem to work with non-ASCII titles, it 
   requires some weird virtualenv, and I was not able to make it 
   working at all.

4. sphinx — I would prefer plain docutils simple HTML (or 
   HTML5), sphinx seems to do too much for me to like it 
   (specific stylesheets etc.), also it requires fixed structure 
   of source files (or it is too complicated to persuade it).

Which gets me back to my original thought: why isn’t some 
rst2epub script part of docutils themselves? From looking to 
pages like 
https://www.thoughtco.com/create-epub-file-from-html-and-xml-3467282 
, https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/index.html 
, or http://www.idpf.org/epub/301/spec/epub-contentdocs.html it 
doesn’t seem to be THAT complicated. Although, do we have 
support for generating XHTML?

Isn’t whole generating epub just stiching together HTML (which 
we know how to generate, hopefully) with some metadata (which we 
already have for generating ToC etc.)?

Best,

Matěj

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