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Scripts for generating html files (which can then be loaded into Calibre to create ebooks) from OPenn and The Digital Walters.

Primary LanguageXSLT

ebooks

Scripts for generating html files (which can then be loaded into Calibre to create ebooks) from OPenn and The Digital Walters. Doug Emery (demery) helped quite a lot, particularly on the Walters file.

This repository contains two files: ebook-generation-OPenn.xsl and ebook-generation-Walters.xsl. These files generate simple HTML files, pulling descriptive metadata from the TEI manuscript descriptions (against which they are processed) and creating a list of images in the manuscript.

These HTML files could be used on their own to provide a kind of simple online display. I loaded them into Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/), a software for generating ebooks. After I loaded them into Calibre, language and tags had to be added by hand (students helped with that part of the work, for which I am grateful). I generated epub files optimized for use in iBook, on the iPad, but Calibre supports other ebook formats and can optimize ebooks for various hardware and operating systems.

Happy bookmaking!