I have been developing stylesheets to produce PDF, EPUB 3 and HTML5 web
pages, and would like to release them for the interest of DocBook
developers. This is a near-final version that includes an innovative
visual interface to the stylesheets using SVG. I'm very aware of
usability testing before a product goes to market, so (in the spirit of
"free-range" user testing) I'd like to get people's opinions about
whether it's easy to use and covers features for basic ebook production.
Please enjoy!
Cop-e-boox is a bundle of customised stylesheets to produce ebook
formats from structured XML files. It is an open-source package for
structured single-source publishing, which lets you set up document
styles to produce PDF, EPUB 3.0 and HTML5 (web page) ebook formats. You
can think of cop-e-boox as a typesetting package for XML content that
allows you to easily set up page layout and document structure, and
change text and graphics styles. Cop-e-boox is designed as an
entry-level starter kit for single-source desktop publishing and aims to
provide a learning tool as an introduction to the technologies used for
digital publishing with XML.
INSTALLATION
1. In a web browser go to the URL:
http://xmleditoz.net.au/copeboox/copeboox-master.zip.
2. Download the zipped file "copeboox-master.zip" (38Mb) to a temporary
location on your computer's file system (e.g. Desktop).
3. Unzip the folder copeboox-master.zip and extract all files to a
directory that you have read and write access to. This will create a new
directory /copeboox-master, which contains all components of cop-e-boox.
4. In your computer system's file manager, open the directory
/copeboox-master.
5. In a web browser open the file "start-here-for-everything.html". That
file has an overview of all components of cop-e-boox.
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*Dave Gardiner*
- [docbook-apps] [ANN] Early release of "cop-e-boox"... Dave Gardiner
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