The first post in this series can be found here:...

Hybrid workflow how-to: Making automated workflows, part 1

By Michael Murtaugh, October 21, 2014

The first post in this series can be found here: Hybrid workflow how-to: introduction & editorial steps As part of the INC subgroup, we have been developing a workflow that allows a flexible production of different kinds of electronic outputs like EPUB, PDF, and book trailers from a sample collection of essays from the recently [...]

As part of the INC subgroup, we have been developing...

Hybrid workflow how-to: Making automated workflows, part 2

By Michael Murtaugh, October 21, 2014

As part of the INC subgroup, we have been developing a workflow that allows a flexible production of different kinds of electronic outputs like EPUB, PDF, and book trailers from a sample collection of essays from the recently published Society of the Query Reader. In part two of this tutorial, we create a shell script [...]

EPUB Trailers

By Michael Murtaugh, October 13, 2014

Results from the epubtrailer.py script that converts EPUB files into GIF-format book trailers. The script was originally written by Silvio Lorusso during the Public Library hackathon, and is released as part of the results from the work of the INC subgroup. Here the script is applied to a selection of illustrated public domain EPUB’s available [...]

make book

By Michael Murtaugh, October 1, 2014

Make is a popular free software tool that helps programmers compile their code into programs. Increasingly the tool is finding new uses in publishing workflows to compile prose text into electronic formats like epub and PDF. The INC subgroup has been using make in their hybrid workflow to produce multiple formats of the Society of [...]

During the recent Digitial Publishing Toolkit hackathon, the proposal, made...

Mark me up, Mark me down!

By Michael Murtaugh, April 30, 2014

During the recent Digitial Publishing Toolkit hackathon, the proposal, made in the context of the INC project, for a using a browser-based editing workflow centered on HTML as the core “document” format was challenged in a discussion initiated by Florian Cramer who proposed focusing instead on the Markdown format. The resulting spirited discussion began focussed [...]

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