Hi James, so what can we learn? "Apparently" a master format can work! Nobody doubt that he just how to do it! The tool chain for creating different output formats have to be geared to the output format. Something, I have advocated. Actually, nothing new. Unless we actually see how the do it, and can learn from the way they do it. So, really, nothing interesting! regards Keith. Am 26.10.2012 um 06:34 schrieb James Adcock <jimad@msn.com>:
From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Bowerbird@aol.com Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 3:31 PM To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org; bowerbird@aol.com Subject: [gutvol-d] Books in Browsers Conference at Internet Archive
alex said;
The event is being livestreamed at http://toc.oreilly.com You may find this interesting.
if anyone finds anything from this conference interesting -- anything at all, _anything_, even _mildly_ interesting -- do please let us know what it is, and why it's interesting...
OK, well, what I found interesting there (after spending three minutes on it) is that Oreilly has the technology to send attractive, correctly formatting e-books out to customer from apparently a single mother source in three different distribution formats: PDF, ePUB and MOBI. And all three formats worked, and there were not the typical PG “scrambled eggs” formatting problems, and all three had sensible choices of paragraph formatting – even though they differed in how they formatting paragraphs. All three formats were a pleasure to read as far as the formatting was concerned. [The actual content sucked, but that is another matter.]