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  • 1.  [ANN] Early release of "cop-e-boox" customized DocBook stylesheets - your feedback appreciated

    Posted 10-04-2013 11:39
    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.


    --
    *Dave Gardiner*




  • 2.  Re: [docbook-apps] [ANN] Early release of "cop-e-boox" customized DocBook stylesheets - your feedback appreciated

    Posted 10-09-2013 11:52
    Hi,

    do you have any public documents or samples that show how the output looks like
    in various formats?

    Also, the link to the pdf flyer on http://www.xmplar.biz/copeboox.html is broken.

    Regards,

    Robert

    On 10/04/2013 01:39 PM, Dave Gardiner wrote:
    > : http://xmleditoz.net.au/copeboox/




  • 3.  Re: [docbook-apps] [ANN] Early release of "cop-e-boox" customized DocBook stylesheets - your feedback appreciated

    Posted 10-10-2013 10:51
    Robert,
    I've updated the web page for the new stylesheet product at:
    http://xmplar.biz/copeboox.html

    There's a link to a sample PDF covering most of the styles that are
    available. I'll put a link to a sample EPUB shortly.
    Dave

    On 09-10-13 10:51 PM, Robert Fekete wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > do you have any public documents or samples that show how the output
    > looks like in various formats?
    >
    > Also, the link to the pdf flyer on http://www.xmplar.biz/copeboox.html
    > is broken.
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Robert
    >
    > On 10/04/2013 01:39 PM, Dave Gardiner wrote:
    >> : http://xmleditoz.net.au/copeboox/
    >
    >
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