Comments on: A New TEI Converter Available for ePub Developers

By: Mike Cook

Mike Cook — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:17:08 +0000

Thanks for the comment and link to the article Keith. I actually made a post on the DocBook converter yesterday but no fret, it’s always good to read what others are saying.

When I was researching which format to use as my master, I learned O’Reilly were using DocBook, I just didn’t know in what context. It’s certainly interesting to hear that you are using it in your regular book production pipeline.

By: Keith Fahlgren

Keith Fahlgren — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:19:47 +0000

Similarly, DocBook to .epub tools have now been released.

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:18:38 +0000

Done!

By: Mike Cook

Mike Cook — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:57:34 +0000

If it’s gnarly TEI you want then you should probably sign up to the TEI-L mailing list, I’m sure there would be some very willing people who would be more than happy to provide you with all the gnarl you need

If there is anyone out there who has some down and dirty TEI files for Liza to experiment with then pop along to threepress.org/contact, there is an email address where you to contact Liza directly.

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:29:39 +0000

What I’d really love are some gnarly (but valid) TEI documents to work with. The XML versions of the Gutenberg files are so lightly tagged that it’s difficult to extract any interesting metadata from them, and I’d like to see what Digital Editions does with tables, embedded figures, and the like that have come through the TEI-HTML stylesheets.

By: Mike Cook

Mike Cook — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:22:15 +0000

Many thanks for the update Liza, and also the pointer to your own gut2tei converter. I’ll be having a good look over that come the weekend.

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:14:25 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation, Mike.

I’ve just updated that blog post to reflect the fact that I’ve moved the repository and downloads for tei2epub to a new project in Google Code meant to house standalone epub tools: http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools/

There is a slightly updated version of the tool bundled here: http://epub-tools.googlecode.com/files/tei2epub-0.2.zip

My test TEI documents are also converted from Gutenberg’s content, although I went directly from books marked up here in the Gutenberg DTD to TEI, rather than starting from plain text. That stylesheet is available here: http://code.google.com/p/threepress/source/browse/trunk/data/xsl/gut2tei.xsl