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eBook Typography - a couple of tweaks

My eBook eBook Typography for Flowable eBooks has been in the iBooks store for a couple of weeks, but I wasn't happy with a couple of issues, so I have uploaded a new version to the store.

It occurs to me, that eBooks can be updated (to fix stylistic problems), and rather than this being an entirely new edition (as it would be in pBook), this is simply a small update and could be handled in the same way that software is updated. On my title page, I have an aside that displays the version number.

But what changes have I implemented?

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Posted on 28 Sep 2012 around 11am • Tagged with: CSS | eBooks | How I do things | Permanent link to this article

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Font Formats for iPad eBooks

To deliver your own fonts for eBooks on the iPad or other iOS devices you will need to include the following in an extra file called com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml inside the META-INF folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<display_options>
<platform name="*">
<option name="specified-fonts">true</option>
</platform>
</display_options>

But what format of fonts can you use?

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Posted on 23 Aug 2012 around 11pm • Tagged with: eBooks | iPad | Typography | Permanent link to this article

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The play’s the thing

Marking up a Shakespeare play

An assignment for my students will be to create an eBook from a Shakespeare play. I thought I should go through some options of how a play could be marked-up with HTML5 and styled with CSS.

The texts of all of Shakespeare's plays are in the public domain and available from the Project Gutenberg web site as well as some other locations. The quality of these texts is variable.

I have tried various ways to use appropriate HTML, and it was not my intention to reproduce anything like the the First Folio that you see here, but rather make it clear which character is speaking which lines.

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Posted on 18 Jul 2012 around 11am • Tagged with: eBooks | Typography | Permanent link to this article

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Flowable eBooks: My book on Typography in progress

Been very busy getting 11 chapters for eBook Typography. Now decided to make this subtitled  For Flowable, since there is such a great difference between flowable and fixed-layout.

The book started out as a sandbox to try out various techniques, but I have now decided to publish. Target publication date: September August 2012.

Posted on 17 Jun 2012 around 9pm • Tagged with: eBooks | iPad | Typography | Permanent link to this article

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