Comments on: ‘Are eBooks ready for technical content?’ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/are-ebooks-ready-for-technical-content/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ahmed Hindawi http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/are-ebooks-ready-for-technical-content/comment-page-1/#comment-862414 Ahmed Hindawi Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:31:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/07/28/are-ebooks-ready-for-technical-content/#comment-862414 The epub format supports SVG, which can be used to do a lot. We are currently working at Hindawi on our XML/epub workflow in order to start publishing books as well as journal articles using epub. Both the books and articles will be highly technical in nature and I can say that we are happy with how epub works for us. I have uploaded a few samples at http://www.hindawi.com/epub.html for those who might want to look at them. The second sample titled "On Optimal Bit..." is a short article with lots of mathematical content. The first and the third samples are whole books with mathematical and tabular content in the first and many diagrams in the second. epub is more versatile than what a causal content creator might be inclined to think, but you need to create a proper XML coding and production standard to utilize its full potential. The epub format supports SVG, which can be used to do a lot. We are currently working at Hindawi on our XML/epub workflow in order to start publishing books as well as journal articles using epub. Both the books and articles will be highly technical in nature and I can say that we are happy with how epub works for us.

I have uploaded a few samples at http://www.hindawi.com/epub.html for those who might want to look at them. The second sample titled “On Optimal Bit…” is a short article with lots of mathematical content. The first and the third samples are whole books with mathematical and tabular content in the first and many diagrams in the second. epub is more versatile than what a causal content creator might be inclined to think, but you need to create a proper XML coding and production standard to utilize its full potential.

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