Archive for the ‘ePublisher’ Category
But I’m not a developer!
I lack objectivity when it comes to programming. I enjoy it. It’s problem solving. There’s always a reasonable explanation. It involves building things. At least, when it’s most enjoyable it involves building things. I suppose when it’s least enjoyable, it involves fixing what you built, but I digress.
Getting ePub output into iBooks on iPhone/iPad
In a recent Study Hall, someone asked how one can deploy the ePub output generated by ePublisher to an iPad. This path has been a little unclear to me and so I promised to research and blog what I found.
Use JScript .NET instead
The ePublisher platform rests on top of the .NET platform. Even though the bulk of the ePublisher processing is done with XSL, you can opt to process items with any of the .NET CLR languages rather than XSL. I published a wiki article which includes an ePublisher project that demonstrates processing content paragraphs with JScript .NET. I [...]
iBooks thoughts
Since the launch of ePublisher 2010.2, which included the new ePub format, I have been spending time with the iBooks app to see how I like it. That’s what I want to talk about in this article. What are my impressions, prejudices, likes, dislikes and so on.
Study Hall
I will be moderating an online session named Study Hall, beginning this Wednesday, March 31 at 7pm CDT. Study Hall is an informal online session in which we will explore ePublisher related concepts and questions. Study Hall will occur the second and last Wednesday of each month. Bookmark the link above to keep track of [...]
__possible__: Google Docs in ePublisher
Here is a screen-cast of the GoogleDocs input adapter that we demoed at RoundUp 2009. A couple of caveats:
This is not currently available and there are no definite plans for making this a part of any ePublisher release. That largely depends on user interest (your interest).
The implementation is a demo. As such, [...]
2-Celled Note Table
Someone asked me about this at RoundUp a few months ago, and I’m just now getting around to publishing it. I’ve just posted a tip for creating a two-celled note style table for a given paragraph style on the WebWorks wiki.
The implementation uses the wwtransform:super resolver. We are working to make this the [...]
ePublisher 2008.2 Eclipse Help Article
The 2008.2 Release of the ePublisher Platform went live today. This release includes the Eclipse Help Format. I have just posted a wiki page which documents the items which are peculiar to the Eclipse Help format.
ePublisher 2008.1 and wiki articles
I posted two new wiki articles. The first is a general outline of ePublisher URI Resolvers. The second is documentation for wwtransform:super, a cool new URI available in the 2008.1 runtime.
ePublisher 2008.1 is here. Happy Q2.