Courses/Hybrid publishing

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practicals

• pad: http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/pad/p/prof_workshop_publishing
• room: BL.00.10a
• duration: 3 hours
• date: March 8 afternoon (1.30-16.30+ drinks until 5).
• software used:
  • Calibre,
  • Pandoc,
  • plain-text editors ( Sublime Text, Gedit )

Plan

• Hybrid publishing.
• Motivations, concepts, tools, strategies, formats that have been present in hybrid publishing efforts of WdKA. 
• Role and possibilities for publishing in an art school. 
• Presentation publications developed to date and in-progress. 
• Inauguration the device lab.

Why publishing?

• hybrid publishing as an extension of efforts from Publication station - establishing dialog between analog & digital 
• continuation of Digital Publishing Toolkit project & From Print to Ebooks – a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts
• publishing as a way to expose the research undertaken within WdKA
• publishing as a learning tool

How hybrid?

Hybrid publishing

Ludovico quote on hybrid publishing

hybrid publishing works

Books Scapes, Julien Levesque, 2012

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E-Book Backup, Julien Levesque, 2012

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Epicpedia Annemieke van der Hoek, 2008

Multichannel publishing workflows

• ePub
• PDF
• self-contained single-file HTML e-books
• Comic book Archive

Tools for hybrid publishing

open source, simple tools that work in combination, forming publishing pipelines

• Wikis
• Calibre
• Pandoc

Markups

"In electronic processing of texts, this hierarchical ordering [...] as well as additional reading aids such bold or italic text, is made possible by using specific formatting codes. This process is called markup and the codes are called markup element"

plain text files

Are only constituted by text. No images, no visual markings.

Are edited using plain text editors and NOT word processors.

Can displayed using the terminal cat myfile.txt will print the content of myfile.txt

Markings are done using (special characters)

Different Markup languages

Each markup uses a different marking syntax

HTML:

<h1>Revenge of the Text</h1>
 <p>There is a room in the <strong>Musée d’Orsay</strong> that I call the <em>room of possibilities</em>.</p>
 <p>That room contains:</p>
 <ul>
  <li>a snow flake</li>
  <li>the end of a cloud</li>
  <li>a bit of nothing</li>
 </ul>

Wiki markup:

= Revenge of the Text =
There is a room in the '''Musée d’Orsay''' that I call the ''room of possibilities''.

That room contains:
* a snow flake
* the end of a cloud
* a bit of nothing

Markdown:

# Revenge of the Text
There is a room in the **Musée d’Orsay** that I call the *room of possibilities*.

That room contains:
* a snow flake
* the end of a cloud
* a bit of nothing

Create one plain-text file

Using either in HTML or Wiki syntax.

You can:

• write it from scratch
• copy HTML content from any website with "View Source"
• copy Wiki content from any wiki: Publication Station, Beyond Social, Wikipedia, etc
• edit its content

Save it dedicated folder.

Pandoc - a markup converter 

If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife

Pandoc - converting to HTLM

command

Pandoc - converting to ePub

command

converting to single-file self-contained e-book

command ..

• HTML - web    (options: --standalone, --css, title, etc - so they get a sense of the options)  
• HTLM - self-contained mulimedia e-books based on single HTML files 
• EPUB (options: --epub-stylesheet, --epub-cover, --epub-chapter-level)

Epub An editable format

Calibre's edit book function to 

• open an epub
• navigate structure 
• change content, style, metadata

converting to PDF

A complicated case.

Different approaches tried:

• Research on ICML & inDesign
• [Weasyprint](HTML + CSS) Research on Weasyprint