[Booki-dev] questions

[adam hyde]

hey,

A quick update on the interface. Aco has been working on speeding up the
edit process in the demo of Booki. Its looking good, and clean, and its
pretty fast.

Demo here of course:
http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net:8080/


On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 19:54 -0700, Mike McCabe wrote:
> jpg images - This comes from trying things out to make the Sony reader 
> happy.  Turns out things were better when I fixed several bad internal 
> hrefs.  (It working around them, unhappily)  Lesson: integrate 
> epubcheck.  I have image wrapper pages working, and will revert to them.
> 

oooo...so all these can be read by the sony reader? noice....does
archive.org have any friendly contacts in the industry to get aco,
douglas and i a sony reader? y'know...for development purposes? ;)

adam




> eng vs. en - Raj, I'm copying the metadata straight across; but there's 
> an easy place to modify things - has this come up before?
> 
> TOC.  Working on it!  This might be hard to get right, generically 
> speaking.  If I can't come up with anything sensible for some books, 
> I'll fall back to making a 'TOC' of page ranges.
> 
> Best regards,
> Mike
> 
> 
> Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> > Raj wrote:
> > 
> >> If you go to a book scanned in our Scribe system, you can generate a
> >> link that will produce an epub. The link will have the
> >> form /download/id/id.epub
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks!  I've downloaded a few to test against.  The full list is here
> > (with archive.org ones prefixed 'ia-'):
> > 
> > http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/git?p=espri.git;a=tree;f=tests/epub-examples
> > 
> > I think I found a couple of bugs.
> > 
> > There are some jpg images listed in the spine in most of the examples,
> > which I don't think the OPF specification allows unless the images have
> > xhtml fallbacks (and they don't).  (My test would actually fail even if
> > you did have fallbacks, because espri doesn't deal with them yet).  It
> > seems the common workaround for image-only pages is to have an xhtml
> > page that only has an <img/> tag in it.
> > 
> > Also, you have used the ISO-639-2 code "eng" instead of the ISO-639-1
> > code "en", which goes against RFC 3066 which the specifications refer to
> > (section 2.3, point 2).
> > 
> > The trickiest thing about these epubs, from bookis point of view, is
> > that they tend not to have meaningful chapters, nor an easy way to find
> > the chapters (e.g., no <h*> tags, just <p>).
> > 
> > 
> > cheers,
> > 
> > Douglas
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