Aaron Parecki

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Tyler Gillies http://kodo.fairuse.org • Nov 1
Why are you even making epub? is that what kindle uses?

@tylergillies All the eBook readers except kindle use it, and Amazon provides a tool to convert from ePub to their format

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Isaac😱Rabinovitch http://picknit.com • Nov 1
Or maybe I'm just mis-stating the argument, which might be really between advocates of structure and those who just want to hack out content

@isaac32767 There's plenty of structure in these HTML files, that's how the ToC is generated.

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Isaac😱Rabinovitch http://picknit.com • Nov 1
In other words, you're using a legacy workflow. Moving on from it may not be practical, but you should at least consider it.

@isaac32767 What's legacy about that? It's an actively developed tool, and I was following their rec's: http://www.princexml.com

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Isaac😱Rabinovitch http://picknit.com • Nov 1
There are a lot of off-the-shelf workflows for converting XML to any user doc format you could name. So if you *start* in XML ... 2/2

@isaac32767 I'm starting in HTML which is what Prince uses to generate the print PDF. That part works great.

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Isaac😱Rabinovitch http://picknit.com • Nov 1
Instead of jumping through hoops to generate the XML, consider authoring in XML in the first place.

@isaac32767 I'm not going to maintain individual XML files for the ncx/opf files. Those need to be generated automatically from my content.

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Wed, Nov 1, 2017 12:09pm -07:00
Isaac😱Rabinovitch http://picknit.com • Nov 1
Curious to know what format your source files are in.

PHP for conditional rendering of content for the epub vs print editions, e.g. "on page X" vs hyperlink, and to get images to flow properly

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Wed, Nov 1, 2017 10:56am -07:00
Isaac😱Rabinovitch http://picknit.com • Nov 1
Curious to know what format your source files are in.

HTML, a file for each chapter and section, with Microformats to indicate chapter names for building the ToC...

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Wed, Nov 1, 2017 10:55am -07:00
Isaac😱Rabinovitch http://picknit.com • Nov 1
You're writing XML without a validating editor? I hope your insurance has good mental health coverage.

by "hand", I mean with some PHP scripts. e.g. the TOC is generated by parsing my source files, etc.

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Wed, Nov 1, 2017 10:47am -07:00
Isaac Rabinovitch http://picknit.com

You're writing XML without a validating editor? I hope your insurance has good mental health coverage.

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mcepl https://matej.ceplovi.cz/ • Nov 1
yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless # your OS doesn't offer separate Java from the browser plugin?

I haven't had a Java browser plugin in ages thankfully. macOS.

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Wed, Nov 1, 2017 10:42am -07:00
Isaac😱Rabinovitch http://picknit.com • Nov 1
Also, the two leading xml editor both run on the JRE. So how did you get that Epub file in the first place?

@isaac32767 Generator? I'm creating it by hand. It's quite a mess of various XML formats and namespaces with no meaningful significance

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Wed, Nov 1, 2017 10:41am -07:00
That feeling when you have to install Java to run a program that validates XML epub files. 😭

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