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'''Professional development workshop on Hybrid Publishing'''
=practicals=
=practicals=
* pad: http://pzwart1.wdka.hro.nl/pad/p/prof_workshop_publishing
* feedback on workshop: [[Courses/Hybrid_publishing/feedback]]
* room: [https://wdka.asimut.net/public/event.php?id=17069&url=https%3A//wdka.asimut.net/public/index.php%3Fdato%3D20160308%26akt%3Dvisgruppe%26id%3D19 BL.00.10a]
* duration: 3 hours
* duration: 3 hours
* date: March 8 afternoon.
* date: March 8 afternoon (1.30-16.30+ drinks until 5).
* software required:
* software used:
* hardware required:  
** [http://calibre-ebook.com/ Calibre],
** [http://pandoc.org/ Pandoc],
** plain-text editors ( [http://www.sublimetext.com/ Sublime Text], [https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit Gedit] )
** Base64 encoder: ( [http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp Online encoder], [http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31983/convert64 Convert64 (Mac OS X, commercial)]
 
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== 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 of developed and in-progress publications . 
* Inauguration the Device Lab.
 
==Why ''publishing''?==
* hybrid publishing as an extension of efforts from Publication station - establishing dialog between analog &amp; digital 
* continuation of [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4165 Alessandro Ludovico's research on Post-Digital Print at WdKA]
* continuation of Digital Publishing Toolkit project &amp; [http://www.publishinglab.nl/blog/publication/from-print-to-ebooks-a-hybrid-publishing-toolkit-for-the-arts/ 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
 
==Possibilities and constraints==
Plain text + poor visuals vs. rich visuals + interactivity
 
[[File:E-publishing_richness.png]]
 
==How ''hybrid''?==
"a single 'entity' that would extensively implement both worlds (analogue and digital), we might call this entity a 'hybrid' – a publication which would 'perform the networks' in depth"<br/><small>Ludovico, Alessandro. “Networks as Agents in the Clash Between Personal and Industrial Post-Digital Print.” Progetto Grafico, August 2015.</small>
 
<small>[https://vimeo.com/96574475 Video] from Ludovico's presentation of “Networks as Agents in the Clash Between Personal and Industrial Post-Digital Print.”</small>
 
==hybrid publishing works==
[http://traumawien.at/prints/ Traumawien]
[http://www.zazzle.com/traumawien]
[http://traumawien.at/ghostwriters/]
http://rlv.zcache.com/traumawien_button-rb0a7981400224870838ec6aaa582161c_x7j3i_8byvr_512.jpg
 
 
[http://badlandsunlimited.com/ Badlands Unlimited]
http://badlandsunlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/book_small.gif
http://badlandsunlimited.com/books/phaedrus-pron/
 
 
[http://www.julienlevesque.net/books-scapes/ Books Scapes], Julien Levesque, 2012
 
http://p-dpa.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Screen-Shot-2014-02-15-at-17.17.18-600x150.png
 
 
 
[http://p-dpa.net/work/e-book-backup/ E-Book Backup], Jesse England, 2012
 
http://p-dpa.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/9_ebookbackup4-300x225.jpg
 
 
<small>More hybrid publishing works in [http://p-dpa.net/work/books-scapes/ Post-Digital Publishing Archive]</small>
 
==Multichannel publishing workflows==
 
* ePub
* PDF
* self-contained single-file HTML e-books 
* Comic book Archive
* ebook trailer 
 
'''Ebook trailer for From Print to Ebooks'''
 
[[File:multipleouptus.svg]]
 
[[File:Trailer-From_Print_to_Ebooks-_a_Hybrid_Publishing_Toolkit_for_the_Arts.gif|ebook trailer]]
 
<small>Ebook trailer for From Print to Ebooks</small>
 
==Tools for hybrid publishing==
: open source, simple tools that work in combination, forming publishing pipelines
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wikis] aka Quick
* [http://calibre-ebook.com/ Calibre]
* [http://pandoc.org/ Pandoc]
* [http://www.etherpad.org]
 
 
 
==Hands-on exploration of strategies and tools==
 
==plain text files==
Are only constituted by text. No images, no visual markings.
 
Are edited using plain text editors and NOT word processors.
Can be displayed using the terminal <code>cat myfile.txt</code> will print the content of myfile.txt
 
Markings are done using special (meta)characters
 
[http://textfiles.com/directory.html Historical examples of plain text file undeground publishing]
 
==Markups==
"In electronic processing of texts, this '''hierarchical ordering''' <nowiki>[...]</nowiki> 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"<small>[http://www.publishinglab.nl/blog/publication/from-print-to-ebooks-a-hybrid-publishing-toolkit-for-the-arts/ From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts]</small>
 
 
==Different Markup languages==
Each markup uses a different marking syntax
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML HTML]:
<source lang="html4strict">
<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>
</source>
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_markup Wiki markup]:
<pre>
= 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
</pre>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Markdown]:
<pre>
# Revenge of the Text
There is a room in the **Musée d’Orsay** that I call the *room of possibilities*.


=concept map=
That room contains:
(to be turn on to image )
* a snow flake
* the end of a cloud
* a bit of nothing
</pre>


Markups - Structured text
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative TEI XML]:
* ICML
* Mediawiki
* HTML


Pandoc - conversion software
<pre>
p> <hi>A New yeares guift for shrews</hi> is a diminutive sheet engraved c.1630 and signed by the relatively unknown Thomas Cecill, who seems to have been active between 1625 and 1640. It bears the imprint of the even less known Edward Lee, whose only other issue is a large equestrian portrait of Charles I. </p>
<p>In a series of unified scenes, it depicts the traditional nagging wife eventually beaten by her husband, and ultimately chased off by the devil. It is accompanied by the following rhyme of a traditional type, reminiscent of the ditty about <hi>Solomon Grundy</hi>, who was <hi>Born on Monday</hi>, and then on successive days christened, married, taken fatally ill and <hi>Buried on Sunday</hi>: </p>
<q>
<lg rend="italics">
<l>Who marieth a wife uppon a Moneday,</l>
<l>If she will not be good uppon a Tewesday, </l>
<l>Lett him go to the wood uppon a Wensday, </l>
<l>And cutt him a cudgell uppon the Thursday, </l>
<l>And pay her soundly uppon a Fryday; </l>
<l>And<note><hi>And</hi>: if</note> she mend not, the Divil take her a Saterday </l>
<l>Then may he eate his meate in peace on the Sonday.</l>
</lg>
</q>
</pre>


ePub - ebook format
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook Docbook XML]
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<book xml:id="simple_book" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0">
  <title>Very simple book</title>
  <chapter xml:id="chapter_1">
    <title>Chapter 1</title>
    <para>Hello world!</para>
    <para>I hope that your day is proceeding <emphasis>splendidly</emphasis>!</para>
  </chapter>
  <chapter xml:id="chapter_2">
    <title>Chapter 2</title>
    <para>Hello again, world!</para>
  </chapter>
</book>
</pre>


= plan =
Reference: Petr van Blokland, [http://www.petr.com/index/-/p-358 Het boek als object], Items, 2004 (!)
== Markups ==
===structured text in page centered layouts===
Question: What steps do you take in order to start the layout of text, handed over from the author or editor?


Usual answer: strip text of all formatting.
==Create one plain-text file==
Using either in '''HTML''' or '''Wiki''' syntax:
* write it from scratch
* copy HTML content from any website with "View Source"
* copy Wiki content from any wiki: [http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/wiki Publication Station], [http://beyond-social.org/wiki/ Beyond Social], [http://wikipedia.com/ Wikipedia], etc
* edit its content


Question: Would a process that preserves text marks, marginalia and structure - italics, bolds, footnotes, sections' hierarchy - help the layout design, and publishing process? 
Save it dedicated folder.


=== What are Markups ===
==turn this file into into other formats==
Markups <nowiki>==</nowiki> structured text.  
...with '''[http://pandoc.org/ Pandoc]'''


Allow text marks, marginalia and structure be preserved from markup to markdown.
==Pandoc - a markup converter ==
''If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife''


===Pandoc===
[[File:Pandoc_diagram.png|700px]]
Introduction: converting .docx to ICML.


Exercise: convert a .docx to ICML, place it in inDesign and produce its layout by using chapter and paragraph styles.
== Pandoc - Convert from Wiki to HTML==
<pre>pandoc --from mediawiki --to html5 --standalone input.mw -o output.html</pre>


Repeat the same process but using [http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/wiki publication stations' wiki]'s pages as source.
* <code>--from</code> - option standing for “from”, is followed by the input format;
* <code>--to </code> - option standing for “to”, is followed by the output format;
* <code>--standalone </code> - option standing for “standalone”, produces output with an appropriate header and footer;
* <code>-o</code> - option for file output


-----
1hour 


==ePub==
=== Pandoc - Convert from HTML to wiki===
=== discussion ===
<pre>pandoc --from html5 --to mediawiki input.html -o output.wiki</pre>
what do you think about ePub ebooks?
* Do you own a table or e-reader?
* Do you read "books" in ePub format?
* Do you see advantages of ePub over PDF? And disadvantages?
* Are there limitations to ePub?
during discussion distribute different tables and e-reader containing the same publications: ''Broken Kindle Screen'', Network Notebook: Selfie, ...


===What is ePub===
== Pandoc - converting to ePub==
* zip file, containing:
'''Simple''':  
** HTML files - chapters
** book images
** CSS style-sheet
** metadata file
** Table of Contents file
** ...?


===Pandoc and Epub===
<pre>pandoc --from html --to epub3 input.html --output=mybook.epub</pre>
Exercise: Simple conversion to Epub with Pandoc


Notice: missing essential elements such as metadata, cover, style


===Hybrid Publishing Resources===
'''Advanced (including stylesheet, cover image, chapter level )''':
Padoc can produce richer epubs, if metadata files, cover image, and css style sheet are specified. Yet doing so manually results in long commands, which often need to be repeated as result of the output.


Hybrid Publishing Resources is a framework for the production of ePubs (and other formats: ICML, HTML), which automates Pandoc conversions, through a structure of folders and editable plain files (e.g. metadata.xml file contain the metadata for the ePub) and a recipe book - a <code>makefile</code>
<pre>pandoc --from html --to epub3 input.html --output=mybook.epub --epub-stylesheet=styles.css --epub-cover-image=cover.jpg --epub-chapter-level=1</pre>


Exercise: Use HPR to produce a plain ePub. Edit the CSS file and metadata file to produce more a richer ePub.
* <code>--epub-stylesheet</code> - CSS file that will style the Epub
* <code>--epub-cover-image</code> - cover file - can either be .jpg or .png
* <code>--epub-chapter-level</code> - at what heading level will the chapter brakes occur


===Extra: HPR produce HTML===
==Epub An editable format ==
Demonstrate


----
Calibre's edit book function to 
1.30h


==Discussion ==
* open an epub
* navigate structure 
* change content, style, metadata
* the issue of good reader apps


Question: How do you see hybrid Publishing being explored in WdKA?
==Self-contained HTML==


Question: Could this process be transmitted to students?
* Example of a [http://cramer.pleintekst.nl/deplayer-impro-snodge/de_player-vroom-impro_snodge-2015-12-17.html multimedia e-zine] with animated GIFs and sound
* Look at the source code
* What is a data URI?
* What can you do better with self-contained HTML, what can you do better EPUB?


---
==converting to PDF==
30min
A complicated case.


Different approaches tried:
* [[Research/Web-to-print/ICML|Research on ICML & inDesign]]
* Pandoc via LaTeX/XeTeX
* [http://weasyprint.org/ Weasyprint](HTML + CSS)  [[Research/Web-to-print/WeasyPrint|Research on Weasyprint]]


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Latest revision as of 13:24, 7 April 2022

Professional development workshop on Hybrid Publishing

practicals


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 of developed and in-progress publications . 
  • Inauguration the Device Lab.

Why publishing?

Possibilities and constraints

Plain text + poor visuals vs. rich visuals + interactivity

E-publishing richness.png

How hybrid?

"a single 'entity' that would extensively implement both worlds (analogue and digital), we might call this entity a 'hybrid' – a publication which would 'perform the networks' in depth"
Ludovico, Alessandro. “Networks as Agents in the Clash Between Personal and Industrial Post-Digital Print.” Progetto Grafico, August 2015.

Video from Ludovico's presentation of “Networks as Agents in the Clash Between Personal and Industrial Post-Digital Print.”

hybrid publishing works

Traumawien [1] [2] http://rlv.zcache.com/traumawien_button-rb0a7981400224870838ec6aaa582161c_x7j3i_8byvr_512.jpg


Badlands Unlimited http://badlandsunlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/book_small.gif http://badlandsunlimited.com/books/phaedrus-pron/


Books Scapes, Julien Levesque, 2012

http://p-dpa.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Screen-Shot-2014-02-15-at-17.17.18-600x150.png


E-Book Backup, Jesse England, 2012

http://p-dpa.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/9_ebookbackup4-300x225.jpg


More hybrid publishing works in Post-Digital Publishing Archive

Multichannel publishing workflows

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

Ebook trailer for From Print to Ebooks

Multipleouptus.svg

ebook trailer

Ebook trailer for From Print to Ebooks

Tools for hybrid publishing

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


Hands-on exploration of strategies and tools

plain text files

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

Are edited using plain text editors and NOT word processors.

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

Markings are done using special (meta)characters

Historical examples of plain text file undeground publishing

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"From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts


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

TEI XML:

p> <hi>A New yeares guift for shrews</hi> is a diminutive sheet engraved c.1630 and signed by the relatively unknown Thomas Cecill, who seems to have been active between 1625 and 1640. It bears the imprint of the even less known Edward Lee, whose only other issue is a large equestrian portrait of Charles I. </p>
<p>In a series of unified scenes, it depicts the traditional nagging wife eventually beaten by her husband, and ultimately chased off by the devil. It is accompanied by the following rhyme of a traditional type, reminiscent of the ditty about <hi>Solomon Grundy</hi>, who was <hi>Born on Monday</hi>, and then on successive days christened, married, taken fatally ill and <hi>Buried on Sunday</hi>: </p>
<q>
<lg rend="italics">
<l>Who marieth a wife uppon a Moneday,</l>
<l>If she will not be good uppon a Tewesday, </l>
<l>Lett him go to the wood uppon a Wensday, </l>
<l>And cutt him a cudgell uppon the Thursday, </l>
<l>And pay her soundly uppon a Fryday; </l>
<l>And<note><hi>And</hi>: if</note> she mend not, the Divil take her a Saterday </l>
<l>Then may he eate his meate in peace on the Sonday.</l>
</lg>
</q>

Docbook XML

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <book xml:id="simple_book" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0">
   <title>Very simple book</title>
   <chapter xml:id="chapter_1">
     <title>Chapter 1</title>
     <para>Hello world!</para>
     <para>I hope that your day is proceeding <emphasis>splendidly</emphasis>!</para>
   </chapter>
   <chapter xml:id="chapter_2">
     <title>Chapter 2</title>
     <para>Hello again, world!</para>
   </chapter>
 </book>

Reference: Petr van Blokland, Het boek als object, Items, 2004 (!)

Create one plain-text file

Using either in HTML or Wiki syntax:

Save it dedicated folder.

turn this file into into other formats

...with Pandoc

Pandoc - a markup converter 

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

Pandoc diagram.png

Pandoc - Convert from Wiki to HTML

pandoc --from mediawiki --to html5 --standalone input.mw -o output.html
  • --from - option standing for “from”, is followed by the input format;
  • --to - option standing for “to”, is followed by the output format;
  • --standalone - option standing for “standalone”, produces output with an appropriate header and footer;
  • -o - option for file output


Pandoc - Convert from HTML to wiki

pandoc --from html5 --to mediawiki input.html -o output.wiki

Pandoc - converting to ePub

Simple:

pandoc --from html --to epub3 input.html --output=mybook.epub


Advanced (including stylesheet, cover image, chapter level ):

pandoc --from html --to epub3 input.html --output=mybook.epub --epub-stylesheet=styles.css --epub-cover-image=cover.jpg --epub-chapter-level=1
  • --epub-stylesheet - CSS file that will style the Epub
  • --epub-cover-image - cover file - can either be .jpg or .png
  • --epub-chapter-level - at what heading level will the chapter brakes occur

Epub An editable format

Calibre's edit book function to 

  • open an epub
  • navigate structure 
  • change content, style, metadata
  • the issue of good reader apps

Self-contained HTML

  • Example of a multimedia e-zine with animated GIFs and sound
  • Look at the source code
  • What is a data URI?
  • What can you do better with self-contained HTML, what can you do better EPUB?

converting to PDF

A complicated case.

Different approaches tried: