Hybrid-Publishing

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Hybrid Publishing - principals

Two or more outputs (publications) from a single workflow, that branches on two the outputs

Updatable: connection between source and outputs

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Template based design

Re-usability - not only of the templates but the workflows

Separate writing and reading interfaces - where does interface what it does better

Experimental outputs

Hybrid Publishing - tools

  • Structured text - HTML, Markdown, Mediawiki, styled docx
  • Collaborative distributed tools - [Git http://git-scm.com/] / Mediawiki
  • Document format converter - Pandoc
  • Ebook viewer, manager, editor - Calibre
  • CSS - for styling
  • Custom made scripts: to gather and assemble content, transform the outputs programmatically, generate experimental outputs , ...

References

  • From Print to Ebooks