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When I was at O'Reilly Media, we worked on an HTML replacement to Docbook called HTMLBook. https://oreillymedia.github.io/HTMLBook/ https://oreillymedia.github

When I was at O'Reilly Media, we worked on an HTML replacement to Docbook called HTMLBook. https://oreillymedia.github.io/HTMLBook/ https://oreillymedia.github.io/HTMLBook/ As far as I know, O'Reilly Media still uses this for all book production.

deanebarker 7y ago
I don't think so anymore. I wrote a book for O'Reilly in 2016 (http://flyingsquirrelbook.com/ http://flyingsquirrelbook.com/) and it was done in ASCIIDoc, which is a variant of Markdown (or perhaps vice-versa) with some custom extensions and structures.
- app4soft 7y ago
  What about HTMLDOC?[0] [0] https://michaelrsweet.github.io/htmldoc https://michaelrsweet.github.io/htmldoc
- Sean1708 7y ago
  > which is a variant of Markdown (or perhaps vice-versa) Neither, AsciiDoc has similar design goals to Markdown but it's a completely separate markup language. I like to explain AsciiDoc as a markup language that sits somewhere between Markdown and LaTeX, it handles far more things than Markdown (and is therefore more complex) but isn't nearly as complex as LaTeX (but also doesn't handle nearly as many things).
- matt_heimer 7y ago
  From http://docs.atlas.oreilly.com/why-atlas.html#editingenvironments http://docs.atlas.oreilly.com/why-atlas.html#editingenvironm... Behind the scenes, you're actually getting well-formed HTML5—specifically, HTMLBook, our new open standard for writing books (or book-like projects) in HTML. If you prefer writing in one of the lightweight markup languages popular today, then we've got you covered with the Code Editor. In this text markup mode, you can use Markdown, DocBook XML, or AsciiDoc, a language similar to Markdown but more robust for presenting complex information.
- runemadsen 7y ago
  I built the Atlas system that O'Reilly uses to produce books, along with a Markdown and Asciidoc converter to HTMLBook. So even though you write in Asciidoc or Markdown, it gets converted to HTMLBook since that's what the entire toolchain understands. But those formats are great for the authors wanting to write in a plain-text alternative.
ognarb 7y ago
The idea remind me of paged-js[1], a polyfill for the print media query. [1]: https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/ https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/

deanebarker 7y ago

I don't think so anymore. I wrote a book for O'Reilly in 2016 (http://flyingsquirrelbook.com/ http://flyingsquirrelbook.com/) and it was done in ASCIIDoc, which is a variant of Markdown (or perhaps vice-versa) with some custom extensions and structures.

app4soft 7y ago
What about HTMLDOC?[0] [0] https://michaelrsweet.github.io/htmldoc https://michaelrsweet.github.io/htmldoc
Sean1708 7y ago
> which is a variant of Markdown (or perhaps vice-versa) Neither, AsciiDoc has similar design goals to Markdown but it's a completely separate markup language. I like to explain AsciiDoc as a markup language that sits somewhere between Markdown and LaTeX, it handles far more things than Markdown (and is therefore more complex) but isn't nearly as complex as LaTeX (but also doesn't handle nearly as many things).
matt_heimer 7y ago
From http://docs.atlas.oreilly.com/why-atlas.html#editingenvironments http://docs.atlas.oreilly.com/why-atlas.html#editingenvironm... Behind the scenes, you're actually getting well-formed HTML5—specifically, HTMLBook, our new open standard for writing books (or book-like projects) in HTML. If you prefer writing in one of the lightweight markup languages popular today, then we've got you covered with the Code Editor. In this text markup mode, you can use Markdown, DocBook XML, or AsciiDoc, a language similar to Markdown but more robust for presenting complex information.
runemadsen 7y ago
I built the Atlas system that O'Reilly uses to produce books, along with a Markdown and Asciidoc converter to HTMLBook. So even though you write in Asciidoc or Markdown, it gets converted to HTMLBook since that's what the entire toolchain understands. But those formats are great for the authors wanting to write in a plain-text alternative.

ognarb 7y ago

The idea remind me of paged-js[1], a polyfill for the print media query. [1]: https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/ https://www.pagedmedia.org/paged-js/