[clug] eBooks from scratch

[Jim Croft]

me too...

especially in relation to things like the Biodiversity Heritage Library
(http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
tech stuff: http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Developer+Tools+and+API)
and associated datamining projects like Biostor (http://biostor.org/)

jim

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Lana Brindley <lanabrindley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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