I would like to produce an epub version of my assembly language textbook (500+ pages, 8.5x11), which is written in LaTeX. I used the Circuit package m4 macros to create over 100 drawings. And I used the Listings package for over 100 code listings.
The book has been in use for a decade at my university, plus a couple of other schools. We had it printed as a "course reader" (no money to me) by the campus bookstore, but this year I allowed students to download a free pdf version. None of them bought the print version. (BTW, Addison-Wesley got very good reviews of my book a few years ago but decided the market is not big enough for them.)
The only complaint from students is that pdf is difficult to work with on ereaders because the text does not flow. I just got a Literati myself and am really enjoying it.
So far it looks like I will have to convert the text portions to html, and convert each drawing to an html-compatible format. It's probably okay to forgo the pretty printing of the code listings and simply use the code tag.
Can anyone point me to some reasonable ways to do this conversion? Especially something to produce, say, svg from m4?
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