gen-epub-book.scala

Generate an ePub book from a simple plaintext descriptor.

Quickstart

Copy this somewhere:

Name: Simple ePub demonstration
Cover: cover.png

Image-Content: simple/chapter_image.png
Content: simple/ctnt.html

Author: nabijaczleweli
Date: 2017-02-08T15:30:18+01:00
Language: en-GB

Modify to your liking, then, assuming you put the file in "example/test.epupp" and want to write the result to "out/test.epub", run:

gen-epub-book.jar example/test.epupp out/test.epub

For more detailed usage information and tag list, see the original manpage.

Supported features

-Include dirs

Via -I switch with [name=]path format.

Custom separator

Via -S switch.

Versions in other languages

The original in AWK.

A rewrite in Rust.

A rewrite in C++.

A rewrite in JavaScript.