I think he's saying that he wants to convert existing texts into TW. I've gone through this exercise with some classical texts (e.g. a couple plays at shakespeare.tiddlyspot.com, bibles). Classical text doesn't have special formatting to worry about. Well structured data can be imported fairly quickly. The questions for the mentioned epubs would be, do you want to bring in all the text formatting, and if so, do you want to do it as TW markup, Markdown markup, or original HTML ?
The broader questions I would have is, how do you want to "chunk" the text into TW, and then how do you want overlay or link commentaries? The smaller the level of chunking, the easier it is to comment on precise bits of text, but the larger the file size and the slower the TW will be. I can imagine that you could show all the verses in a text and then have a highlighted asterisk after the text. Click on the asterisk and there would appear a note box that a student could record notes about that passage. A report tiddler would aggregate all the comments made. I'm guessing that that would be too inflexible. Good luck, Mark On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 5:56:41 AM UTC-7, Lost Admin wrote: > > > > On Monday, May 8, 2017 at 8:00:17 PM UTC-4, Steven Schneider wrote: >> >> ... >> >> # Rendering open texts published as ePub (or mobi or wxr or odt: this is >> one example <http://open.lib.umn.edu/americangovernment/>) in TW so that >> students can submit assignments as comments on the text. >> ... >> > > A couple of times now, I've seen this talk of TW and ePub. I've done a bit > of digging into the epub format and I don't understand how you can > integrate TW and epub. ePub is a container format for text documents that > uses HTML to encode the document but it also places some pretty tight > limits on the HTML and per-html-file size. On top of all that, the document > needs to fall-back gracefully to the limits imposed by ebook readers with > limited RAM. So, how do you propose to merge the two? > > I suppose, if you kept the TW file small enough you could wrap it in the > structure of an epub and it might render properly in some ebook readers but > I don't think you could save changes back into the epub file without a > custom epub reader. > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5653dedf-53c2-48bb-b97a-63e2d0210eea%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
