[NTLUG:Discuss] good "book" format for html?

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Sat Nov 27 19:14:59 CST 2004


Kevin Brannen wrote:
> I'm looking for a good format to hold books that are in HTML, something 
> that can hold the HTML, including any graphics (or other files) that 
> support it.  If I were in the MS world, the CHM format would probably be 
> what I wanted.  But, I want to use this in Linux, so an "open standard" 
> is really what I'm searching for.

Well, if you want to be able to read them - then what's wrong with dumping each one
into a separate directory - call it "index.html" and you're done??

If you don't want to be able to read them at a moment's notice then dump each
book into a gzipped tarball.

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