Generate an epub version for each post

[ma...@louisroche.net]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile an epub version of every posts in addition to the html one. I know that pandoc can generate an epub, so it should be possible

I looked at the tutorial to have a different version of a post, but it only says how to distinguish the two versions. But it also talks about `pandocCompilerWith'. It may be the function that I should use, but I don't understand how. I think that I should do something with defaultHakyllWriterOptions and the WriterOptions type to specify the output format. Haskell is not my main language. 

Could you give me examples to do that? Or maybe examples to generate an pdf version. I can try to adapt it after.

Thanks

Louis

[Jasper Van der Jeugt]

Hello,

I have been travelling a lot for the past few days and will continue
to do so for another week or two. My apologies for the late reply.

In order to do this, you want to use `readPandoc` [1]. This converts
the markdown to the internal format used by Pandoc. You can then use
the Pandoc API [2] to convert this to the EPUB format.

I think the result would look like e.g.,:

compile $ do
body <- getResourceBody
withItemBody
(\p -> unsafeCompiler $ writeEPUB defaultHakyllWriterOptions p)
(readPandoc body)

[1]: http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/reference/Hakyll-Web-Pandoc.html#v:readPandoc
[2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pandoc/1.11.1/doc/html/Text-Pandoc.html#v:writeEPUB

Hope this helps,
Peace,
Jasper

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[ma...@louisroche.net]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer. I was very busy, I'm sorry for not responding faster.

I tried your solution and it compiles. Big improvement. But the epub file contains no text. It's a valid epub file, but without the text of my post.

The sources are in http://paste.isomorphis.me/EOb

It's almost the default site.hs

Louis

[Jasper Van der Jeugt]

Hey Louis,

I tried your code and encountered the same problem: I'm not sure how
`writeEPUB` works. Did you figure this out in the meanwhile? I can
invest some time to solve this issue later.

Peace,
Jasper

[ma...@louisroche.net]

Hi,

writeEPUB needs a template to generate the epub. If the writerTemplate in the writerOptions is empty, the epub will be empty.

With this code, I have the content of the blog post in the epub. I just need to add the post title and the author name.

http://paste.isomorphis.me/imy

The read of the template at the beginning of the main seems to be ugly, but I failed to put it somewhere else.

If I want to add a link to the epub file in the html version, should I do it in the templates/post.html template?

Thanks again for your help

Louis