Difference between revisions of "C4lMW14 - Code4Lib Journal as epub"

Revision as of 18:20, 23 July 2014

Useful information:

Created git repo https://github.com/jtgorman/c4l-journal-as-epub

images are in issue, not w/ article

Runs Wordpress, maybe use Anthologize

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_Journal_Entries_in_Directory_of_Open_Access_Journals

EPub3: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-richlayoutepub/

EPub2 Tutorial: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/index.html

Writing ePub3: http://idpf.org/sites/default/files/digital-book-conference/presentations/db2012/DB2012_Liz_Castro.pdf

Dan Scott's suggestion: make it sustainable on the top of http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_Journal_WordPress_Customizations

zip protocol:

$ zip -0Xq my-book.epub mimetype

$ zip -Xr9Dq my-book.epub *

Pandoc (uses the Haskell Platform) http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html

Wordpress w/ Pandoc? https://blogs.aalto.fi/blog/epublishing-with-pandoc/

NATURAL LANGUAGE:

For an issue, create .ncx / .end files from the issue index, <spine /> and <manifest /> in .opf

Save HTML output for each article, index, list in <manifest />, .ncx / .end

Sort into folder for relationships

Zip, rename .epub, save to download