hi, i made an epub version of issue #6, since i read mostly from my ebook reader and wanted to catch up. i'm sharing it here in case anyone finds it useful :) the plan is to make one per issue, though it requires considerable work (30 minutes correcting format! :P) epub: https://share.riseup.net/#J7t-UmJQL7Sezp9gBLq8wQ markdown: https://share.riseup.net/#4LfndDzti9ahqMEouYq7Dw html to markdown: `pandoc -t markdown REPLACE_WITH_URL > article.markdown` markdown to epub: `pandoc -o issue6.epub issue6.markdown` -- .oÓ)
nice one! - are you willing to do this for all issues (that would be great) - what are the formatting issues and do you think there is a way to minimize these? how? / Peter
On 5 Jan 2016, at 01:44, fauno <[email protected]> wrote:
hi, i made an epub version of issue #6, since i read mostly from my ebook reader and wanted to catch up. i'm sharing it here in case anyone finds it useful :)
the plan is to make one per issue, though it requires considerable work (30 minutes correcting format! :P)
epub: https://share.riseup.net/#J7t-UmJQL7Sezp9gBLq8wQ markdown: https://share.riseup.net/#4LfndDzti9ahqMEouYq7Dw
html to markdown: `pandoc -t markdown REPLACE_WITH_URL > article.markdown` markdown to epub: `pandoc -o issue6.epub issue6.markdown`
-- .oÓ)
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"Dr. Peter Troxler" <[email protected]> writes:
nice one!
:)
- are you willing to do this for all issues (that would be great)
yes, but it may take me a while
- what are the formatting issues and do you think there is a way to minimize these? how?
pandoc converted html to markdown for me, but other things i had to fix manually: * the non-standard [hX] tags for titles (is it a wordpress plugin?) * third-level sections were using bold paragraphs instead of <h3> * quotes were using formatted paragraphs instead of <blockquote> * there're many <div>s without content, but they're easy to remove * bibliography had several italic tags (<i>) without content, this made pandoc convert them correctly, but the conversion to epub made it confuse them for bold markup (single * is italic, empty italic was **, where ** opens and closes bold text too) * there were some footnotes that had lots of <sup> tags instead of just one (minor annoyance anyway, see "expanding the internet commons") i think that's it. i guess most of them are limitations on how wordpress cleans the html markup when posting, though others are creative uses of these limitations :D i find markdown as the base format easier to work with, like the "source code" of an article. then it can be converted to anything else in a clean way. see, for instance, endefensadelsl.org, where articles are published in several formats. this is done automatically after humans write everything in markdown. -- http://endefensadelsl.org
On 5 Jan 2016, at 15:22, fauno <[email protected]> wrote:
* the non-standard [hX] tags for titles (is it a wordpress plugin?)
this is legacy formatting from the former wordpress theme that we were using; I have created a plugin to convert those on the fly to regular HTML, see http://peerproduction-net.preview1.cp247.net <http://peerproduction-net.preview1.cp247.net/> (under construction)
* third-level sections were using bold paragraphs instead of <h3>
this should be an instruction to editors to use <h3> and not bold paragraphs
* quotes were using formatted paragraphs instead of <blockquote>
similarly, editors should use <blockquote> in these instances
* there're many <div>s without content, but they're easy to remove * bibliography had several italic tags (<i>) without content, this made pandoc convert them correctly, but the conversion to epub made it confuse them for bold markup (single * is italic, empty italic was **, where ** opens and closes bold text too)
this is strange, as the (WYSIWYG) editor (TinyMCE) in WP normally eliminates (some) empty tags ... might need to pay attention to this when editing an issue
* there were some footnotes that had lots of <sup> tags instead of just one (minor annoyance anyway, see "expanding the internet commons")
this *could* be a result from converting from Word? ... html cleanup when editing ... or it is a plugin issue, would need to investigate
i think that's it. i guess most of them are limitations on how wordpress cleans the html markup when posting, though others are creative uses of these limitations :D
=> we will anyway have to update instructions to editors :) / Peter
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