Open eBook (was Two possible abiword features I'd like)


Subject: Open eBook (was Two possible abiword features I'd like)
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2001 - 08:06:57 CST


At 3:03 AM -0600 2/28/01, Sam TH wrote:
>The other feature I'd like to see, is that of Open eBook creation -
>the possibility of directly writing and saving out of an eBook,
>entirely from within AbiWord. This shouldn't be as difficult as it
>sounds really, it's only a modification of the XHTML saving
>technology, however that works, and probably a different style set.

        Open eBook (OEB - <http://www.openebook.org/>) is the
"standard" for text-based ebook content for reading with tools like
Microsoft's Reader product - as opposed to more graphical content
with PDF. OEB is a hybrid of HTML and XML, though it shouldn't be
too hard to write an exporter for it using the "generic XML" exporter
work that Dom did.

Leonard

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