Use htmldoc to Produce Standalone pdf

[rl1234567890]

It seems to me that htmldoc produces better looking standalone office texts out of html than the present tools (i.e., epubgen2)
It can do several formats, including pdf

htmldoc --webpage --charset utf-8 --embedfonts -f matins4-6-2021.pdf "https://www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/Pofficium.pl?date1=4-6-2021&command=prayMatutinum&version=Rubrics%201960&testmode=regular&lang2=English&votive="

and epub

htmldoc --webpage --charset utf-8 --embedfonts -f matins4-6-2021.epub "https://www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/Pofficium.pl?date1=4-6-2021&command=prayMatutinum&version=Rubrics%201960&testmode=regular&lang2=English&votive="

Would it be possible to modify epubgen2 or make a new script to produce standalone texts?

[ajmalton]

It does produce nice output.

It seems that htmldoc doesn't interpret tables very much and perhaps not CSS at all. Also no funky Unicode. I wonder if all that would constrain the future too much.

Tables: likely not.

CSS: maybe. It would mean that nothing essential could be left to the CSS in the future. (Liturgical) color? Relative font size?

Unicode: in your samples, what happens to the crosses and daggers ( ✠ and ☩ and ‡ ) after htmldoc?

[rl1234567890]

Looking at the epub file for Compline of today, the ‡ cross is not represented correctly but as ✙ǽ ( ✙œ in the English). The other crosses, colors, and fonts look fine to me.
Another thing that does not work correctly is the title:
Ad Completoriumóóó í 7-30-2021 é

[ajmalton]

That from the existing generator or from htmldoc? Maybe the existing generator doesn't handle Unicode very well either...

[rl1234567890]

From htmldoc. The existing generator does not distinguish between the crosses (at least when I look at the epub through calibre).

[imjagpul]

From htmldoc. The existing generator does not distinguish between the crosses (at least when I look at the epub through calibre).

epubgen2 intentionally uses + for all crosses, because some of the eBook readers were not able to display the ✠ and ☩ and ‡ symbols.

In case the distinction is important to anyone it would not be a problem to add another switch to produce the nicer characters (for the devices that can display them) it would be very simple adjustment.

[rl1234567890]

From htmldoc. The existing generator does not distinguish between the crosses (at least when I look at the epub through calibre).

epubgen2 intentionally uses + for all crosses, because some of the eBook readers were not able to display the ✠ and ☩ and ‡ symbols.

In case the distinction is important to anyone it would not be a problem to add another switch to produce the nicer characters (for the devices that can display them) it would be very simple adjustment.
I'd like to have that! Thanks!

[mbab]

FYI: Calibre ebook-convert provides decent pdf when converting output of https://mbab1.gitlab.io/divinumofficium.epub/