Glossary for a Diffractive Publishing Practice

EPUB

⤷ Acronym for Electronic Publication. An ebook format developed by the international Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). EPUB is an open standard and the most commonly used and supported file formart for electronic books. EPUB was dsigned to accommodate reflowable content.

Electronic Publication

⤷ Beyond EPUB, A Electronic Publication is a publication generated, created and shown by an electronic device.

Traditional book

Art-oriented publishing

Design-oriented publishing

Hybrid publishing

Printed publishing

Word Processors (Microsoft Word)

Desktop publishing suites (DTP)

⤷ The design of printed matter on a personal computer using graphical What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) software such as Adobe InDesign or QuarkXpress. DTP software useas a graphical user interface to visually simulate the nalog desks used in pre-digital times by graphic and editorial designers.

Do-it-yourself (DIY)

Markdown

⤷ Word processing format

Small-edition

Synergy

Low cost

Ease to use

Sustainability

Platform independence

Open Source

Layout

Intra-acting

E-paper

⤷ Word processing format

E-reader hardware

Plain Text

⤷ Text without any visual fomratting (such as bold, italic, font types and sizes, clickable hyperlinks, etc.) ASCII is the oldest and still

E-reader software

WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)

Logical-semantic markup

HTML (hypertext Markup Language)

Electronic text

Paged-centered

Reflowable

A reflowable document is a document without a predefined page layout, in which the page dimensions are dynamically and automatically adapted (includind page breaks) to each screen size. The pages are contextualized.

Context

Optical character recognition (OCR)

Hyperlinks

Sympoiesis

⤷ Create with...

Bitstreams

One-to-one:

⤷ single book published in different media

One-to-many:

⤷ single book that has different appearances in different media

One-to-database:

⤷ book based on the content of the data base which can be used in a number of ways

Table of contents

Autopoiesis

⤷ The term autopoiesis (from Greek αὐτo- (auto-) 'self', and ποίησις (poiesis) 'creation, production') refers to a system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts and eventually further components.

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Endnotes

Cross.references

Citations

Bibliography

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