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The following are miscellaneous notes about web publishing principles to adopt before thinking of how to approach web publishing practically | The following are miscellaneous notes about web publishing principles to adopt before thinking of how to approach web publishing practically | ||
== The three main families of read-only digital text == | |||
Text is usually read in one of the following formats: | Text is usually read in one of the following formats: | ||
- paper: books, zines... | - paper: books, zines... | ||
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If we're thinking of these formats as text to be read rather than edited, all of those formats could be crafted from one of three categories of digital text files: | If we're thinking of these formats as text to be read rather than edited, all of those formats could be crafted from one of three categories of digital text files: | ||
* files made to control how a text is printed into paper; e.g. PDF | |||
* files made to be read on an local-first, often-offline device; e.g. ePub | |||
* files made to be read on an online browser; e.g. HTML/CSS | |||
The next question would be: how do we get to these 3 formats? Could it be possible that they can be authored all at once from a single source? | The next question would be: how do we get to these 3 formats? Could it be possible that they can be authored all at once from a single source? | ||
== From the web to the print == | |||
todo | todo | ||
== Distinguishing between writing and editing == | |||
https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish | https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish | ||
Revision as of 16:24, 9 May 2025
The following are miscellaneous notes about web publishing principles to adopt before thinking of how to approach web publishing practically
The three main families of read-only digital text
Text is usually read in one of the following formats: - paper: books, zines... - page directly retrieved from an ad-hoc online protocol: WWW, Gemini, Gopher - page of a self-containing file: PDF, epub
If we're thinking of these formats as text to be read rather than edited, all of those formats could be crafted from one of three categories of digital text files:
- files made to control how a text is printed into paper; e.g. PDF
- files made to be read on an local-first, often-offline device; e.g. ePub
- files made to be read on an online browser; e.g. HTML/CSS
The next question would be: how do we get to these 3 formats? Could it be possible that they can be authored all at once from a single source?
From the web to the print
todo
Distinguishing between writing and editing
https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish
Writing alone can be done in a notepad (paper and pen) or a bare-bones text editor (digital). Markdown allows to add a minimal amount of semantics and hypertext in a bare-bones digital writing tool.
Editing can either be made at the same time as writing, or in a later phase