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Adventures in Modern Publishing
Scott Nesbitt
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vs.
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Why EPUB?
●Open standard●Widely supported●Reflowable and
resizable text●Perfect for text-
heavy books
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Why EPUB?
●Open standard●Widely supported●Reflowable and
resizable text●Perfect for text-
heavy books
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Why EPUB?
●Open standard●Widely supported●Reflowable and
resizable text●Perfect for text-
heavy books
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Why EPUB?
●Open standard●Widely supported●Reflowable and
resizable text●Perfect for text-
heavy books
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Why EPUB?
●Open standard●Widely supported●Reflowable and
resizable text●Perfect for text-
heavy books
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Drawbacks of EPUB
●Not meant for books with complex layouts
●Weak support for scientific publishing
●Poor support for linking into and between books
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Taking a peek inside an EPUB file
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Taking a peek inside an EPUB file
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An example contents.opf file
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An example toc.ncx file
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●DocBook●AsciiDoc●OpenOffice.org
/LibreOffice●Sigil●Booki
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●DocBook●AsciiDoc●OpenOffice.org
/LibreOffice●Sigil●Booki
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Example of a DocBook file
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xsltproc /path/to/docbook-xsl-1.74.0/epub/docbook.xsl docbook.xml
Transforming DocBook to EPUB
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●DocBook●AsciiDoc●OpenOffice.org
/LibreOffice●Sigil●Booki
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Example of an AsciiDoc file
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a2x -f epub --stylesheet myCSS.css myFile.txt
Transforming AsciiDoc to EPUB
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●DocBook●AsciiDoc●OpenOffice.org
/LibreOffice●Sigil●Booki
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Setting metadata with Writer2EPUB
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●DocBook●AsciiDoc●OpenOffice.org
/LibreOffice●Sigil●Booki
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Sigil in action
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●DocBook●AsciiDoc●OpenOffice.org
/LibreOffice●Sigil●Booki
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Writing with Booki
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&
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Validating online with epubcheck
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Validating with Sigil
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Final Thoughts
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Questions?
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