Courses/Hybrid publishing

practicals

• duration: 3 hours
• date: 2016 Feb ...?
• software required:
• hardware required:

concept map

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Markups - Structured text

• ICML
• Mediawiki
• HTML

Pandoc - conversion software

ePub - ebook format

plan

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.

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

What are Markups

Markups == structured text.

Allow text marks, marginalia and structure be preserved from markup to markdown.

Pandoc

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.

Repeat the same process but using publication stations' wiki's pages as source.

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1hour

ePub

discussion

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

• zip file, containing:
  • HTML files - chapters
  • book images
  • CSS style-sheet
  • metadata file
  • Table of Contents file
  • ...?

Pandoc and Epub

Exercise: Simple conversion to Epub with Pandoc

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

Hybrid Publishing Resources

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 makefile

Exercise: Use HPR to produce a plain ePub. Edit the CSS file and metadata file to produce more a richer ePub.

Extra: HPR produce HTML

Demonstrate

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1.30h

Discussion

Question: How do you see hybrid Publishing being explored in WdKA?

Question: Could this process be transmitted to students?

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