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H2O is a web app for creating and reading open educational resources, primarily in the legal field
https://opencasebook.org
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Consider alternative export formats #1426

Closed holtchesley closed 2 years ago

holtchesley commented 3 years ago

We've talked about possibly supporting:

How hard would it be to support these formats? Would either of these formats get us closer to supporting print-on-demand, or some other easily consumable format?

jcushman commented 3 years ago

On PDF, one option I looked at for CAPNow is to use a Windows box to have Word do a docx -> pdf conversion. Can be done either with a self-hosted machine or with a paid API, which both have benefits and drawbacks. This gets you a pristine PDF that perfectly matches the display in Word ... but on the other hand might not get you much that you can't get with the Word version and a two minute manual export process? Not sure.

holtchesley commented 3 years ago

Looking at Lulu, they request a pdf for book printing, so the automation part might be helpful there.

rebeccacremona commented 3 years ago

On PDF: it would be good if our solution produces tagged PDFs, since we are starting with reasonably well-structured HTML. So far as I know, LaTeX -> PDF still can't do this; not sure about Word for Windows -> PDF.

jcushman commented 3 years ago

Oh cool, I didn't know about that. Sounds like Word would work? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/create-accessible-pdfs-064625e0-56ea-4e16-ad71-3aa33bb4b7ed

rebeccacremona commented 3 years ago

would be neat to consider a "standalone website" export as well

That sounds fun. That sounds fun both as a single html file (which we basically have already) with a <style> tag, maybe with any images inlined, and as a WARC/WACZ, with any referenced media also captured and bundled in (if that's allowed) or if that's too fancy, an assets dir like you get with Save Page As -> Website, complete.

rebeccacremona commented 2 years ago

See also JATS, which is not for books, but, is useful for services like https://www.typefi.com/automated-publishing-solutions/industry-solutions/education/

lizadaly commented 2 years ago

This has moved into https://github.com/orgs/harvard-lil/projects/4