Great stuff, > Thanks Tony !
I commented previously on another thread. Just a Quick point, love the > highlighting outside of edit mode. > To reply to your question and Mohammad's about reusing some of the features we've developed in the course of this project, in order to publish native material, that's indeed a relatively low-hanging fruit that we'll probably pick this year, once everything is stabilised. But the risk is to settle for something that doesn't leverage the full power of TiddlyWiki, in terms of dynamic features and interactivity for instance. Being able to include the Sycom's leaflet maps plugin or BurningTreeC music sheets and midi plugin or simply a Youtube video into a book is of unmatched value in the publishing world! So if we are talking about an authoring framework, I'd lean toward not limiting TiddlyWiki, but rather documenting it with book authors in mind. In fact, the so-called *Authoring Mode* that you get when you click on the yellow latch is just the unleashed TiddlyWiki. Maybe it could become a place where authors that are not familiar with TW5 get examples and documentation. I like the idea of providing authoring documentation in every single book released. > - After selecting something, say in error, how can I deselect? > > Highlights are in fact annotations without content. So if you click on your highlight, and then on the trash bin, it deletes the (empty) annotation. Cheers, Xavier. > On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 9:33:57 PM UTC+11, Xavier Cazin wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> TL;DR: Go to >> https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9783962558772/great-expectations-serapis-classics, >> click on "Read an extract" and play with it. Then come back if you'd like >> to know more. >> >> I have been working in the publishing industry for the past 25 years, >> including the last 10 years as the co-founder of a French ebook >> distribution company, *immatériel.fr <http://xn--immatriel-f4a.fr>*. >> Among many things that got me frustrated in the course of selling ebooks is >> the fact that ebook formats have never been in phase with how we have >> linked ourselves to knowledge in the two last decades. >> >> The main reason for this particular failure is because ePub and >> Mobipocket were initially (around 2010) imposed to publishers by Apple and >> Amazon respectively, and became soon the only digital formats that >> publishers could sell to the main vendors (actually, Google Play Books also >> sells PDF books). >> >> While there are other reasons to rant about the current state of the >> ebook market, I gave some thought about what could be a likeable modern >> format for eBooks, and as you guessed, TiddlyWiki checked all the boxes: >> >> 1. the book should be easy to open: the reading app could be the same >> browser that you used to buy the book, whether you are on your mobile or >> at >> your desktop; >> 2. it should be readable both offline or online; >> 3. it should open at the same place where you stopped reading last >> time; >> 4. typesetting should be as beautiful and complex as a website can be; >> 5. content should be truly multimedia, including live content from >> anywhere on the network. Audio books should be a mere byproduct of this >> feature; >> 6. authors should be allowed to multiply standpoints on its content; >> 7. readers should be able to reorganise the initial content, and also >> write above and around it; >> 8. for the paranoids out there or those who missed Tim O'Reilly's >> famous piece on piracy >> >> <https://www.oreilly.com/content/piracy-is-progressive-taxation-and-other-thoughts-on-the-evolution-of-online-distribution/> >> back in the days, book content should be easy to encrypt. Ebooks lending >> to >> libraries might actually be a good use case. >> >> So we at *immatériel.fr <http://xn--immatriel-f4a.fr>* considered that >> this territory was worth exploring and we dedicated our 2019 R&D efforts >> into building a TW5 alternative format for customers who were regularly >> buying ePubs at our experimental bookstore *7switch.com >> <http://7switch.com>*. We had to move forward on two fronts in parallel: >> >> - Converting our full catalog of 80K ePubs from more than 1000 >> (mostly French) publishers into TW5 >> - Figuring a way to display books in an homogeneous way, yet familiar >> enough for both people reading content on the Web and people used to ePub >> reading apps, while showing off their new TiddlyWiki nature. >> >> So I asked *Jeremy* if he'd welcome a sponsoring for such a project >> through his company *Federatial* and, to my awe, he said yes of course! >> Parallely, since I wasn't sure of how we should render the typical book >> elements nor the typical features of an ebook reading app in a TW5 >> interface, I asked *JD*, one of our gifted community contributors to TW5 >> user interfaces, for ideas and preliminary tests. >> >> >> Soon enough, the three of us had regular meetings, that eventually led to >> a *preliminary release* of several great open source products that are >> now embedded into every non-DRM books and extracts that you'll find at the >> *7switch* ebookstore: >> >> 1. The first one is already included in the current prerelease of >> TW5: the dynaview plugin >> >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Ftiddlywiki%2Fdynaview> >> allows content to come into view dynamically in response to familiar >> gestures like scrolling. >> 2. Next comes the *dynannotate* plugin, which will soon make its way >> to 5.1.22, and is already included in books and extracts that you can find >> on *7switch*. With it, you can annotate content in a various number >> of ways. >> 3. Then you'll find the *ePub-slicer* plugin, a tool to convert any >> ePub file into a plugin that essentially contains a list of small content >> chunks (aka tiddlers!) which can be revealed during the scroll as you read >> the book in the browser. Thanks to their plugin nature, not only multiple >> converted books can be hosted in a single TW5 file, but also one can >> override book content without fear, since the original shadow tiddlers >> could be retrieved at any time. Note that the HTML parsing is not yet >> complete, as we'd like to be able to parse any ePub, whether their content >> has been well semantised or not. So if you see spurious </li> or >> </blockquote> every once in a while, don't be surprised: *you're >> looking at a work in progress*. >> 4. Finally, you'll also find JD's *TW Book Wrapper* plugin, which is >> responsible for most specific UI elements, from annotations management to >> the automatic language switching, based on your browser default language. >> By the way, we started with French and English as built-in interface >> languages. If you'd like to submit more translations, you're welcome! >> >> Please have a try with any non-DRM books (or their extracts) that you'll >> find on 7switch >> <https://www.7switch.com/en/list/drmfree/lang-eng/new/page/1/sales>. >> Also try to drag and drop your own ePubs (in so-called *Author Mode*) to >> add books in these TW5 containers. And tell us what you think! >> >> >> Cheers, Xavier. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0b08df21-3f85-4678-8ae9-eb53edd9ffbe%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0b08df21-3f85-4678-8ae9-eb53edd9ffbe%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CADeSwYMgzZDNZv1xtWGTnmgBt8fejZNV8OWFoBrAJ3j3cMnX3g%40mail.gmail.com.
