Posts labelled “markdown”
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EPUB is everyone's export format and nobody's native medium. That's a strange fate for a format this good. Well established as the way novels get distributed, EPUB 3 is quietly a general-purpose container for durable documents: built from…
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Transforming plain text to SVG for EPUB 3
The guiding principle of the SEED.html app's data handling is that plain text source content, stored inside the EPUB file, is transformed at authoring time to its xhtml representation. The previous blog post provides an overview of how…
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Transforming plain text to HTML for EPUB 3
This post summarizes the formats that I've experimented with in the SEED.html app to create EPUB 3 books. I'll present a minimal goal HTML fragment, and show what the plain text source looks like for each format and what it generates as an…
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Last week I read for the first time about Invisible XML . (The first place I saw it referenced was on mastodon - @[email protected] ) "Invisible XML is a language for describing the implicit structure of data, and a set of technologies for…
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Easy Hypertext for Genealogy in EPUB
This sample project illustrates the SEED.html app set up to create a family history book where each person gets a chapter, and relationship links between parents/children/siblings/partners are defined in script objects, and rendered as a…
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This post is just to embed the Digital Choir Resources file that I'll be using at a workshop on using EPUB for accessible sheet music. There's nothing new in this sample project that hasn't previously been illustrated in earlier blog…
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Responsive Music Notation in EPUB3
Music for Every Reader: Responsive Notation in EPUB3 Imagine reading a digital book where the text doesn't adjust to your screen. You’re constantly pinching to zoom, scrolling awkwardly, and the text is either too small or too large. This…
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Using Markdown for EPUB authoring
The SEED.html app enables writers to create valid EPUB 3 packages from markdown source files. There's a sample project called 'Introduction to Markdown' on the app's home page here; stewarthaines.com/epub Find it under the 'Writers' group…