Hybrid-Publishing

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Hybrid Publishing

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Two or more outputs

Two or more outputs (publications) from a single workflow, that branches out the end.


Updatable

Connection between source and outputs

Re-usability

Template based design.

With similar mechanics, but different templates - which results in different identities.

Hackers & Designers new website (prototype) wiki

Small costs - large audiences

Publishing to a wide audience, under multiple formats, at small costs.

W3C Portable Web Publications for the Open Web Platform full convergence between online and offline/portable document publishing

Form producing meaning

Not specific to hybrid publishing. But as at least 2 outputs are produce the influence of form over meaning becomes more apparent.

Example:

EPUB from Graduation works

Epub

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  • poor medium
  • inconsistently rendered across readers
  • lack of experimental, radical or utopian works or discourses
  • readable and writable
  • accessible: open-standards (HTML, CSS, Dublin Core metadata); Only requires a text-editor, and religious belief (to write it form scratch).
  • a book space?


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 , ...


Simple Epub recipe ( using Pandoc)

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Ingredients:

  • 1 folder for project
  • text file with wiki content
  • images locally stored

Quick recipe: `pandoc --from mediawiki --to epub3 --self-contained --output=mybook.epub page.md`


Long recipe: `pandoc --from mediawiki --to epub3 --self-contained --epub-chapter-level=1 --epub-stylesheet=styles.css --epub-cover-image=cover.jpg --epub-metadata=metadata.xml --toc-depth=1 --output=mybook.epub page.wiki`

minimal metadata.xml file

<dc:title id="epub-title-1">The Title</dc:title>
<meta refines="#epub-title-1" property="title-type">main</meta>
<dc:publisher>Publisher-name</dc:publisher>    
<dc:date id="epub-date">2015-11</dc:date>
<dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
<dc:creator id="epub-creator-0">Author</dc:creator>
<meta refines="#epub-creator-0" property="role" scheme="marc:relators">aut</meta>

arguments explained

  • `--epub-chapter-level` - at what heading level will the chapter brakes occur
  • `--toc-depth` - what heading level will be present in the Table of Contents
  • `--epub-embed-font` can also be used to embed custom font, but need to be imported in css style sheet

view book with calibre

`ebook-viewer mybook.epub`