Lab News
Rails in a Nutshell Manuscript Open For Collaboration
By Keith FahlgrenOctober 19, 2009 | Comments: 0
Collaborative Publishing: One Brand New Title, One Success
By Keith FahlgrenSeptember 28, 2009 | Comments: 0
Another site focused on collaborative publishing, Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, launches while we look back on the first attempt to improve manuscripts by engaging the community in an open and collaborative dialog with the authors, Programming Scala.
Feedbooks integration and one-click additions to your Bookworm library are now available, along with some bug fixes.
Adobe has made extensive contributions to the world of EPUB software, but needs to go a few steps further with their Digital Editions product.
So Adobe has finally released the latest update for InDesign CS4 (6.0.2). Basically, before this update was released, the ePub export functionality was broken. Here is the latest blog post from Adobe about the update: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditions/2009/05/indesign_602_and_epub_export.html. With this update, I...
We've enabled internationalization support for the user interface and help text in Bookworm and are looking for help in translating it into various languages. Bookworm runs on the Django framework, and Django supports these languages. They're all fair game. To...
After being asked about EPUB resources, I wrote up a categorized list of the places I'd go to find out more about the format, how to create it, and how to consume it.
DocBook-XSL 1.74.1 Released with Improved ePub Output
By Keith FahlgrenFebruary 17, 2009 | Comments: 0
Generate ePub files from your DocBook XML today using the first stable release with ePub support, DocBook-XSL
1.74.1.
Nice to see some old-school text-based browser action, and as Bookworm was written exclusively using emacs, it seems appropriate: Screenshot via kamen.nadev. This isn't just geek cred, though. For the same reasons that the site is usable in a text...
