Electric Book Works course notes
Multi-format editing
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Multi-format editing
Preparing content for a print-and-digital world
Arthur Attwell
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Multi-format editing
Home
Introduction
Focusing on people
New workflows
What we’ll cover
Context
Change and the living Internet
Credibility and scale
Formats and reading contexts
Viewports on paper and devices
UX, UI and user patterns
Accessibility
Further reading
Connecting humans and machines
Separating content and design
Basic HTML and CSS
Elements
Stylesheets
Classes
Character encoding and unicode
Naming design features
Document trees
Accuracy and consistency
Further reading
Choosing tools
Thank you and goodbye, MS Word
Choosing editing software, online and offline
Text-only editing
Collaborative editing
WYSIWYG versus plain text
Constraints versus creativity
Open software and standards
Open-source software
Open standards
Collaboration
Team roles
Version control
Automatic version history
Turn-based version control
Building blocks of books
Book pages and web pages
Structuring the book
Double-page spreads
Reading topography
Text
Special characters: fonts, unicode glyphs and markup
Helpful and unhelpful fonts
Links and linking
Long, unwieldy links
Links can break
Links in print
Cross references: page numbers and purple numbers
Purple numbers
Creating internal links
Capitalisation
Indexing
Maths
Images
Bitmap and vector images
Size, resolution and quality
Pixels and resolution
Image ‘quality’
Color spaces and colour profiles
Text in images
Further reading
Interactive elements
Video and audio
Video and audio in print
Slides
Questions
Graphs
Games and applications
Data as content
Glossaries and bibliographies
Directories and dictionaries
Manuscripts as spreadsheets
Search indexes
