Documentation Formats - epub mobi pdf

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Hi,
I was wondering, if there is any chance that you could publish an ebook-version for the documentation (docs.julialang.org) which is automatically generated?
possible formats like: epub, pdf or mobi

This would be useful, because I could work offline from time to time. I know I could get just the source code on github. But maybe there is a more convenient way and possibly other people would like that, too.

Thank you in advance!

——————————-UPDATE —————————
devdocs.io is a great alternative, as well as using the offline html from the installation path file:///opt/julia/share/doc/julia

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If you use one of the official binary distributions, it should include local HTML documentation. Thus one of my most-used browser bookmarks is

file:///opt/julia/share/doc/julia/html/en/index.html

This has the dubious advantage that offline searches have the (perhaps familiar but quirky) features of the main website.

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Thank you, Ralph! That was very helpful. This will help me for now with some things. But to get back to the epub feature. It would also help me, if I could read the documentation on a tablet of my choice where I don’t have julia installed. Of course I could generate the epub from the html or straight from the github-repository myself.

But as far as I read on readthedocs, there‘s even a built-in feature for this type of publishing.
According to Configuration File V1 (Deprecated) — Read the Docs user documentation 8.4.2 documentation you can provide some kind of yaml.config file which can provide more options for formats, including epub.

For now I will use the offline html, but maybe the docs.julialang.org can be extended with that feature.

best regards,
Lennart

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It would be interesting to see how well that works. I am a big fan of e-readers for text with predominantly linear access (eg literature), but I find them cumbersome for everything else, including technical documentation. Also, I am wondering if the documentation requires a minimum screen width for tables and similar. YMMV.

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I use the PDF feature for my (Python) projects on readthedocs and it works nicely. Have not tried the EPUB yet :wink:

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Another option is to use devdocs.io

which has documentation also for Julia 0.6. Just make sure to activate the offline mode for the Julia docs before going offline. I usually use it on my laptop, but I just tried on my Android phone where it seems to work as well, so I’d guess on a tablet it should also work.

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Great alternative! Thank you for devdocs! Pretty cool website!
Offline feature is really the best part. Still I would prefer an extra file! Call me old fashioned, but I enjoy using a reader for such things, because I know where I find my stuff!

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Also, if you’re using a Mac or iOS, check out Dash. It allows you to keep not only offline documents, but also stack overflow Q&A for languages as well, and it integrates into many IDEs (I’m using it with Visual Studio, and the complete list is on the above-linked page).

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Dash is very cool! I’ve never seen the Julia docs run as fast…

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It has even lightweight integrations for VIM and other editors :wink:

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