[clug] eBooks from scratch

[Lana Brindley]

Ohhhh yeah! Count me in!

You might be interested in publican:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Publican

It's available in Fedora 11 & 12.

L

On 16 April 2010 13:28, Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:

> For a future CLUG presentation, I'd like to do an interactive session of
> building an ePub book all the way from raw source (eg: existing collection
> of HTML, ReStructured Text, plain text, POD) through to reading the book on
> some kind of reader.
>
> What I'm proposing is a presentation interleaved with interactive
> components, more or less along the lines of a tutorial.
>
> At present the plan would be:
>  - Overview of ePub format
>   - Comparison to straight HTML
>   - Comparison to PDF
>  - Inventory of tools for ePub:
>   - construction
>   - validation
>   - delivery
>   - reading
>  - Presentation of sample materials
>   - Collection of HTML files
>   - PyDoc
>   - POD documentation such as HTTP::Mechanize
>   - ReStructured Text
>   - Plain text
>  - Preparation of support materials
>   - Table of contents
>  - Construction of ePub book
>  - Validation of ePub book
>  - Publication of ePub book
>  - Reading of ePub book
>   - Okular
>   - Stanza
>   - iBooks
>
> If anyone has pointers to software or tutorials relevant to such a
> presentation, could you contact me off-list?
>
> Thank you!
> Alex
>
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