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pittendrigh · 10-04-2018, 08:57 AM

Good point. Sigil can make epub3 too. I've been so involved in cutting and pasting 20 years of old HTML content into forms, and munging it with scripts in order to make old HTML become epub3 I've missed a few branches in the forest.

Forgot to point out earlier:
There is already one other "display epub on the server" program called MOBI. Mobi downloads the epub content to a hand held device and then uses Javascript codes to display the content with a book-like appearance. Each such page is wrapped and accompanied by HTML, HEAD and BODY elements, so each page display consumes the entire view port. MOBI cannot be embedded inside a surrounding Content Management System.

Robopages is a CMS that has an epub3 plugin. The Robopages epub3 plugin strips off the HTML HEAD and BODY elements leaving only the TOC and page content, which can be displayed encased inside any block element the developer chooses. So--the epub content can be surrounded by the global navigation of a larger website context. That makes it unique at this point.....as far as I know.

Actually there is a new still-in-development epub plugin for the Moodle E-courseware system. Users on the Moodle forum have been having trouble getting it to work so far, but that will likely change.

That system is peppered, from top to bottom, with mysql select and insert commands which make it specific to Moodle only. Because the Robopages epub system is entirely text based, any competent developer could modify the Robopages epub3 plugin so it would work with any other CMS system.

10-04-2018, 08:57 AM	#3
pittendrigh Connoisseur Posts: 78 Karma: 1332336 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: montana Device: none	Good point. Sigil can make epub3 too. I've been so involved in cutting and pasting 20 years of old HTML content into forms, and munging it with scripts in order to make old HTML become epub3 I've missed a few branches in the forest. Forgot to point out earlier: There is already one other "display epub on the server" program called MOBI. Mobi downloads the epub content to a hand held device and then uses Javascript codes to display the content with a book-like appearance. Each such page is wrapped and accompanied by HTML, HEAD and BODY elements, so each page display consumes the entire view port. MOBI cannot be embedded inside a surrounding Content Management System. Robopages is a CMS that has an epub3 plugin. The Robopages epub3 plugin strips off the HTML HEAD and BODY elements leaving only the TOC and page content, which can be displayed encased inside any block element the developer chooses. So--the epub content can be surrounded by the global navigation of a larger website context. That makes it unique at this point.....as far as I know. Actually there is a new still-in-development epub plugin for the Moodle E-courseware system. Users on the Moodle forum have been having trouble getting it to work so far, but that will likely change. That system is peppered, from top to bottom, with mysql select and insert commands which make it specific to Moodle only. Because the Robopages epub system is entirely text based, any competent developer could modify the Robopages epub3 plugin so it would work with any other CMS system. Last edited by pittendrigh; 10-05-2018 at 08:00 AM.