Hello People in science but also book authors/ publishers.

[clemenspitschke@ecoevo.social]

Hello People in science but also book authors/ publishers. I have a question regarding eBooks/ EPUB. I would like to write something with audio implemented and publish it as an EPUB. I started to look into #Sigil but since it is an editor it is not realy for creating/ writing the content. What do you use for creating your articles/ books and how do you convert them to EPUB? Do you use multimedia in your publications?

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[notsoloud@expressional.social]

@ClemensPitschke
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[infonauten@helvede.net]

@notsoloud @ClemensPitschke
Not a creator, but I've worked in the publishing business for 10+ years:

Write your manuscript however you like, using the tools you like and are comfortable with; word, LibreOffice Writer, Markdown, what have you.
The conversion to epub will be easier, if you structure your text (mark headlines with "heading" instead of just making the text bigger).

Then once the manuscript is done, either convert it yourself using something like Sigil or a professional service.

[radicalecologist@todon.eu]

@ClemensPitschke
Believe it or not, I used rmakrdown and now use quarto for scientific writing, even when I am not using R. You only need to learn markdown to start to use those, but adding media into documents is trivial. The option to add code blocks and latex makes for a really smooth and integrated workflow. I've never tried rendering to an epub with audio media, but I know it works with pdf documents and html slide shows. I think the challenge might be if the epub format supports embedded audio or not. If it doesn't, then it won't matter if you can force it in, no one will be able to use it.

[clemenspitschke@ecoevo.social]

@RadicalEcologist
EPUB3 supports Audio and Video.
Maybe some of the "special" readers won't but I guess all tablets, PCs and smarphones will.
I've read several books on bioacoustics, birdsong and whatnot over the last years and was allways quite dissatisfied with how media was handled, which realy destroyed the reading flow for me, or I never listened to any of the material since it was too inconvnient while reading. That's why I wanted to try to create an EPUB with true multimedia integration