Posts labelled “epub”
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There is no podcast app for books
Every week I rehearse with a singing group. Mixed ages, mixed comfort with technology. At some point in most rehearsals somebody is pinch-zooming a PDF on their phone — a scan of handwritten sheet music — trying to find their line. What…
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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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This is a preview of all the sample EPUB files from the SEED.html app page Presenting them here like this is a bit out of context. You're supposed to read them in the SEED.html app but it's a bit lower-commitment to read them here. Click…
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This sample reflowable EPUB 3 file includes some CSS animation of an SVG element, but also a Reading System script that loads and plays a Lottie animation from a json file. It validates as EPUB 3, but will only be animated as designed in a…
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Tasteful dynamic content in EPUB 3. This sample reflowable EPUB 3 file includes some Reading System javascript to toggle the visibility of some text content. The dynamic content is in the second chapter, which is a recipe for the Georgian…
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This is a test post for the blog for me to work out how to embed the sample EPUB files using epub.js It works surprisingly well. If you want to edit this sample EPUB you will find it on the SEED.html app page. ‹ › Download EPUB
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This is a project close to my heart, and probaby driving some of the design choices I've made with the SEED.html features. In my non-software development time I sing with some Melbourne-based vocal ensembles. We largely sing folk music…
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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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LaTeX to EPUB 3 with SEED.html
Do you write in LaTex for academic publishing? Are you interested in producing EPUB 3 for its superior accessibility? The SEED.html app has you covered. This is what an EPUB3 file can look like when generated from LaTeX formatted source…
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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…
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Allowing HTML in EPUBS I filled out the survey a few weeks ago and I didn't feel like my responses there were particularly pro or con HTML in EPUB. But the idea has been on my mind since then and this thread on mobileread.com clarified a…