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[Pranesh Prakash <pranesh AT cis-india.org>]

Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind AT gmail.com> [2013-11-18 16:03:00 +0530]:
> About SCERT & Kerala Text books,  There official order will take few more
> days . please wait for that
> BTW Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is working closely with SCERT for
> bringing out  HTML, EPUB and PDF versions of all text books .
> 
> We are helping SCERT to build a Mediawiki based textbook preparation system
> for collaborative content preparation by text book commitees and  FOSS
> based XeTeX setup for book authoring and PDF/EPUB/HTML generation.  So
> without any technical issues you can start using official Epub versions
> once it is released.

This sounds *excellent*.  Kudos on your fantastic efforts.

You might also want to check out Pandoc[1] and Markdown as part of the 
workflow, and see whether it would fit/make things easier.  While it is not a 
TeX editor, Pandoc allow people to write in Pandoc-extended Markdown (and 
LaTeX), which is considerably easier that authoring raw LaTeX, and have it 
converted and rendered by a LaTeX engine of your choosing, including XeLaTeX. 
 It can also handle HTML/ePub generation.

 [1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html

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