Subject: Re: Open eBook (was Two possible abiword features I'd like)
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2001 - 12:10:30 CST
Unless I'm wrong (and I may very well be wrong) OpenEBook is pretty much
just XHTML 1.0 + an optional surrounding OEB package. We could probably do
this fairly easily by subclassing our XHTML importer and exporter so that we
don't use constructs which the OEB specification forbids or deprecates.
Dom
>From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>
>To: Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu>, AbiWord Dev <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
>Subject: Open eBook (was Two possible abiword features I'd like)
>Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:06:57 -0500
>
>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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