Courses/Hybrid publishing

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 @ WdKA

• What is hybrid publishing.
• Motivations, concepts, tools, strategies, formats that have been present in hybrid publishing efforts of WdKA. 
• Role of 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 
• publishing as a way to expose the research undertaken within WdKA
• publishing as a learning tool
• continuation of Digital Publishing Toolkit project & From Print to Ebooks – a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts

How hybrid?

Hybrid publishing

Ludovico quote on hybrid publishing

Examples of hybrid publications:

==Multichannel publishing workflows== 

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

multichanel workflow

Tools for hybrid publishing

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

• Wikis
• Calibre
• Pandoc

Marking the text

"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"<ref name="FromPrint"From Print to Ebooks: a Hybrid Publishing Toolkit for the Arts / >

plain text

• difference between plain text and binary file
• plain text editors
• WYSIWYG editors & visual markups

"'What You See Is What You Get' (WYSIWYG) markup languages used in word processors such as Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or OpenOffice, where text which is marked up in a certain way (such as italic or bold) is immediately displayed that way, so that there is no visible distinction between the conceptual structure and the visual representation."

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

Always use plain-text editors or Markdown-dedicate-WSIWYG-editors to write in Markdown. Using a text-processor like MS Word,Libreoffice or Mac text editor will result on binary or rich text formats. We need to work with plain-text files

Create one plain-text file

in either in HTML or Wiki syntax.

You can:

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

Save it in a folder dedicated folder.

==turn this file into into other formats==  ???

Pandoc - a markup converter 

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

Pandoc conversions images

Pandoc - converting to HTLM

Pandoc - converting to ePub

Converting to single-file self-contained e-books

• 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:

• ICML+inDesign Research on ICML & inDesign(@Andre todo: Add wikipage with notes on ICML + inDesign)
• [Weasyprint](HTML + CSS) Research on Weasyprint