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Why making demo ebooks?

The Infrastructure de Recherche Méthodes et Outils pour l’Édition Structurée [Métopes] provides public academic publishers with a pipeline for:

  • converting a styled .docx file into the XML format
  • enriching this XML file with metadata
  • exporting it into a number of publication formats (such as ePub 3.3, PDF InDesign or HTML 5).

What I made

I have programmed the pipeline for the exports to born accessible ePub 3.3. I have also made a number of demo ebooks, to illustrate the possibilities offered by the Métopes pipeline.

An excerpt from Shakespeare

Accessibility

All ePubs 3.3 made with Métopes are born accessible and générés par la chaîne Métopes sont nativement accessibles et comply with the WCAG 2.2 standard, at least at level A

These ePubs have the following accessibility features by default:

  • structural navigation
  • displayTransformability
  • ARIA roles
  • unlocked
  • reading order
  • table of contents

The program automatically detects the presence of additional elements and, depending on the case, generates an ePub with the following additional accessibility features:

  • index
  • mathMl
  • LaTeX maths
An example of index

Automated indexing

The pipeline also detects the presence of index marks, introduced in the docx format, and generates an accessible index of arbitrary depth according to the characteristics of the data.

A customizable ePub

Métopes ePubs are customizable with a number of parameters:

  • Customizable CSS
  • Depth of the title levels to show in the Table of Contents page
  • Biographies and summaries at the end of the volume or within each article or chapter.
Histoire du 19e siècle 62

Revue d’Histoire du xixe siècle 62 (2021) : « Ancêtres »

This accessible ePub 3.3 demonstrates the generic functionalities of the Métopes pipeline.

It is an edition of the texte of issue 62 of the Revue d’Histoire du xixe siècle, edited by Nicole Edelman and Louis Hincker. This issue was originally published by Open Edition and by Cairn.info with a CC-BY-SA licence .

I have styled the text of the thirty-three articles of the issue with Métopes 3.1 (excepting the copyrighted elements) and I have added a four-level depth index in the « Ancestors » section.

How linguistic examples are rendered

Citation formats

This accessible ePub 3.3 presents the way in which Métopes processes a number of specific types of objects:

  • the different types of citation
  • drama
  • poetry
  • linguistic examples
  • document sections, paragraphs, words and word groups in foreign languages.