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diff --git a/doc/publishing-ebooks-with-asciidoc.txt b/doc/publishing-ebooks-with-asciidoc.txt index 896b54f..61e75db 100644 --- a/doc/publishing-ebooks-with-asciidoc.txt +++ b/doc/publishing-ebooks-with-asciidoc.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ ifdef::blogpost[] endif::blogpost[] It's easy to write and publish books in -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB[EPUB] and PDF formats using +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB[EPUB] and PDF formats using https://asciidoc.org/[AsciiDoc]. ifdef::blogpost[] This article was originally published on the @@ -44,14 +44,9 @@ system. NOTE: A number of 'asciidoc' and 'a2x' features used in this article require newer versions of AsciiDoc -- version 8.6.5 or better is recommended. The version of -http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookXslStylesheets[DocBook XSL +https://github.com/docbook/wiki/wiki/DocBookXslStylesheets[DocBook XSL Stylesheets] used was 1.76.1. -TIP: If you are experiencing 'xsltproc' errors when you run 'a2x' take -a look at Francis Shanahan's -http://francisshanahan.com/index.php/2011/fixing-epub-problem-docbook-xsl-asciidoc-a2x/[Fixing -the ePub problem with Docbook-XSL/A2X/Asciidoc] blog post. - [[X1]] Minimal Book @@ -92,7 +87,7 @@ version (`minimal-book.pdf`) with 'dblatex' run: a2x -fpdf -dbook minimal-book.txt The distributed example PDFs were built using FOP -- if you prefer -http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/[FOP] over +https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/[FOP] over http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/[dblatex] use: a2x -fpdf -dbook --fop minimal-book.txt @@ -116,7 +111,7 @@ prepackaged for your Linux distribution): - https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets[DocBook XSL Stylesheets] - http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/[dblatex] (PDF file generator) -- http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/[FOP] (alternative PDF file +- https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/[FOP] (alternative PDF file generator) - https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck[epubcheck] (optional EPUB file validator) @@ -128,7 +123,7 @@ The Brothers Karamazov ---------------------- 'The Brothers Karamazov' is an example of a multi-part book. To generate the AsciiDoc source I downloaded the -http://www.gutenberg.org[Project Gutenberg] plain text source and +https://www.gutenberg.org/[Project Gutenberg] plain text source and edited it manually (this took around 15 minutes). To generate the `brothers-karamazov.epub` EPUB file run this command: @@ -145,7 +140,7 @@ edited it manually (this took around 15 minutes). To generate the |link:examples/books/brothers-karamazov.zip[brothers-karamazov.zip] -|http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28054 +|https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28054 |==================================================================== @@ -154,7 +149,7 @@ specific meta-data: --------------------------------------------------------------------- // -// Text from Project Gutenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28054 +// Text from Project Gutenburg https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28054 // // Formatted for AsciiDoc by Stuart Rackham. // @@ -257,12 +252,12 @@ this command: |link:examples/books/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes.zip[adventures-of-sherlock-holmes.zip] -|http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661 +|https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661 |==================================================================== Here's a screenshot of the first page of the first chapter (rendered -by the http://www.epubread.com/en/[Firefox EPUBReader addon]): +by the https://www.epubread.com/en/[Firefox EPUBReader addon]): image::examples/books/sherlock-epub.png[] @@ -271,7 +266,7 @@ Zip file] contains the following files: `adventures-of-sherlock-holmes.txt`:: The AsciiDoc source (derived from the - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661[Project Gutenberg plain text + https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661[Project Gutenberg plain text source]). `adventures-of-sherlock-holmes.jpg`:: @@ -302,7 +297,7 @@ specific meta-data: --------------------------------------------------------------------- // -// Text from Project Gutenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661 +// Text from Project Gutenburg https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661 // // Formatted for AsciiDoc by Stuart Rackham. // @@ -374,7 +369,7 @@ See https://asciidoc.org/faq.html#X5[this FAQ]. Reading EPUB documents ---------------------- To view and read epub files, you can use -http://www.epubread.com/en/[EPUBReader addon], which is available for +https://www.epubread.com/en/[EPUBReader addon], which is available for Firefox, Chrome / Chromium, and Opera. EPUBReader honors the book's CSS styling rules and renders the page as the author intended (many EPUB readers only process a sub-set of CSS styling rules). @@ -388,6 +383,6 @@ Non-fiction Books and Manuals AsciiDoc supports a rich set of markup conventions and can generate reference works and technical manuals complete with tables, illustrations, indexes, bibliographies and appendices. All the -examples on the http:///asciidoc.org/[AsciiDoc web site] +examples on the https://asciidoc.org/[AsciiDoc web site] can be formatted as EPUB eBooks. |