CSS is another computer language that defines design: font sizes, indentation, colour, etc.
Then, to create print-ready PDFs, websites and ebooks from that HTML, we combine the files with CSS stylesheets. In our workflow, we store books in HTML, with each book part (title page, contents page, chapter, etc.) in its own HTML file. We can mark up everything in a book using HTML tags and classes. HTML is very simple and very powerful (which is why it’s the language behind almost every web page). Unlike its limited set of specific tags, HTML classes are infinite, because we can make up class names as we need them. To write this in HTML, I would make the tag. If I want to tell the computer what kind of paragraph it is, I can put it in a special class. , ), bold and italic, lists, images, tables, and blockquotes.īut not all paragraphs are the same: there are opening paragraphs, pull-quote paragraphs, blurb paragraphs and more. The tag is one of about a hundred possible tags, maybe ten of which you’ll see in a book, such as tags for headings (e.g. This text is tagged in HTML as a paragraph. Tags are always in elbow brackets, like this paragraph tag.
a paragraph) starts and ends with a tag that a computer can recognise. That is, software (most commonly a web browser) reads the HTML code and renders it as nice-looking, readable text and images. It’s a way for us to mark up or tag text, so that a computer knows how to display it beautifully to humans.
If you’re new to HTML and markdown, don’t worry: it’s much easier than you think. To edit for the workflow, you need to have a rough idea how HTML works, and you need to learn markdown. That is, we go straight from edited manuscript to page proofs – no typesetting! If you get your markdown right, the workflow can zap out an almost-print-ready PDF, website or ebook from your files in a matter of minutes. On its own, it’s also a handy guide to markdown in general. This guide explains how to edit text for the workflow.
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