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by ubook 13y ago
Markdown is ultimately a pre-HTML format and inherits its weaknesses. It is a display language. Books have their own foibles; table of contents, notes, indexes etc. These really need a semantic approach. Finally, I'm not suggesting any
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by ubook 13y ago
Footnotes are bits of text tagged on at the end, like Wikipedia for instance. UBook semantically tags them so they are available where the note exists in the book. Presumably a popup or panel when you touch or click the note marker in the t
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by ubook 13y ago
I have no idea. I have coded for different ebook formats, and used various tools. I just felt it was a mess. I wanted to see if a simple markdown-style language might help create a universal approach that could be used as a basis for output
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by ubook 13y ago
You've possibly never tried to create ebooks then. Even something simple like a table of contents is handled quite differently by different formats. Many convertors aim to convert Word docs into ebooks, for example, and are poor. But t
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by ubook 13y ago
No, the language itself is pre-release. The posting here is basically a first showing. The idea is to encourage convertors of course. For the author or book designer to mark it up as a UBook, then be able to export that to anything e.g. Kin
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by ubook 13y ago
UBook is a universal language to help authors, publishers and book designers easily markup and format books. Like markdown it uses simple, semantic tags to create a plain text file that can be transformed into something more complex such as
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UBook – Markdown for eBooks(ubook.info)
55 points by ubook 13y ago|37 comments