Past projects
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Supporting multilingual documents and translations.
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Exporting and post processing HdM course data.
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Displaying version differences related to revisions of a given document.
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Implementing end user editor support and style sheets for a dedicated XML document schema.
- DITA based lecture notes
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The promising DITA standard allows for topic oriented documents.
Current lecture notes are being represented as Docbook in a “linear” fashion. Employing DITA requires:
The current lecture notes content may serve as a starting point for creating appropriate assets. Other content may be used as well: The project's goal is providing a self-consistent prototype.
Both XMLMind and OxygenXml support DITA documents and related topic maps in particular.
- Assembly based lecture notes
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This suggestion is related to the latter. Starting from DocBook version 5.1 support for assemblies is being provided. These are another means addressing topic oriented content creation.
- Enhanced Maven/Gradle archetype
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Deriving targets from DocBook content may be effected by using appropriate Maven archetypes.
While these archetypes provide a good build automation they fall short when transformations require preprocessing of images with respect to a given target format.
Example: An author may provide a PDF image by virtue of
<imagedata fileref="image.pdf">. Generated HTML or Epub targets will require a transformation to e.g. SVG or PNG.Likewise embedded video assets may also require type transformations for supporting different browsers.
