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If there are particular HTML errors you encountered as a pattern in the journal website, please feel free to let us know about them on the Journal listserv, if you're interested. On 1/4/2011 12:30 PM, Louis St-Amour wrote: > Given my journal2epub script's experience with the Code4Lib journal > site, does Anthologize have an option to produce TOC items from post > headings, modifying the HTML to add IDs where necessary? Does it map > links to posts with their offline copies, preserving references? Does > it try to add the largest image it can, or does it include only > embedded, potentially smaller ones? (In iBooks, unlike Adobe-based > readers, you can double-tap to zoom in on an automatically resized > large image.) Are metadata and stylesheets specified manually? And > finally, does it clean up the HTML to produce strict XHTML 1.1 as > required? In the journal's case, I had to process HTML three times > with manual checks to delete invalid attributes before things would > mostly validate. (Turns out validation is the hardest thing about > automatically producing EPUB files.) As to my script's use in > producing official EPUB files, sure, that's why I made it. But if you > look closely, it makes assumptions about the HTML structure of the > pages, so it might need modifications if the design or templates > change. > > > Louis. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2011-01-04, at 12:01 PM, "Hanrath, Scott"<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Anthologize lets you be as picky as you like about the content you use >> with it. Essentially you create multiple Anthologize 'projects', then add >> the whatever subset of content you need (native local WordPress content or >> content imported via a feed) to the project. The Anthologize content is >> added as copies, preserving the originals and allowing for editing >> specific to your output needs. >> >> Eric's right that it *is* manual and a bit tedious, but it's (hopefully) >> getting less so. You do need to created a 'part' structure within your >> project to organize your content. But when adding content you can filter >> by Tag/Category/Date Range/Post Type. And with the last release you can >> add more than one post at a time. >> >> The Anthologize dev team would certainly be interested in the code4lib >> journal committee's take on the tool and ways it could be improved. >> (Support for automated project creation and output generation would an >> interesting feature to see on the roadmap). >> >> -- Scott >> >> On 1/4/11 10:45 AM, "Eric Lease Morgan"<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: >>> >>>> ...Is there any easy way to get it to, for instance, make an anthology >>>> of >>>> all the posts with a certain WordPress tag or category instead?... >>> Based on my (poor) recollection of playing with the Anthologize plug-in, >>> the process is a bit manual. Initialize epub. Drag postings to it. >>> Annotate/tweak titles. Click 'Go'. Get epub file. The process is not >>> laborious, just a bit tedious. I would definitely recommend the "Journal >>> Committee" experiment with Anthologize. >>> >>> -- >>> Eric Morgan