At the risk of appearing dense : what the fuck ? I click on the click I get a bright pink page with barely 20 words telling me nothing ? Not one link in sight or a paragraph of text ? Just an ocean of bright pink ?

I missed a tiny arrow on the bottom. This led me to wonder why they felt the need to break scrolling. Maybe it’s less obvious on other platforms.

Ok. I see it. On a 27 inch screen it is very easy to miss. It is positively tiny and very far off any point of interest.

On mobile it also has a tiny touch area and they don't support swipe.

Yeah you need to make the mental step that you're viewing a book with pages. It took me some time as well. I have a small screen though.

Correction for myself : "click on the click" -> "click on the link".

Fyi, it may be too late now but for an hour or so after you make a post there's an "edit" link above it you can use to edit it.

I know, I've been on here for 6 or 7 years now under different pseudonymns (I change generally when I hit 500 and can downvote comments).

Thank you though ;)

Constructive criticism but the UI on this site is really really confusing. Took me two minutes to figure out that I have to use keyboard nav and that there is one tiny button on the bottom right to go to the next page.

You don't want to invent completely new UI paradigms when the old ones work well and users are accustomed to them.

TLDR: "a method and an application for producing publications in a variety of formats—EPUB 3, Mobi/KF8, static website, PDF, and XML file, which can be imported into InDesign for print layouts—from a single source that consists of [Markdown] files and other assets." https://github.com/triplecanopy/b-ber

From the publishing industry: it sounds a little like it’s trying to overwrite existing workflows. Many of the teams involved in producing a long-lived publication have built their industry around said workflows.

Many of the teams that still work in print start in print/InDesign.

A major problem that needs solved is parsing that format or a related export format to a convertible raw data format that forgoes some of the noise that can exist in old, reused InDesign and InCopy templates.

A streamlined workflow is very much needed in the industry, but with reduced staffing levels and string-thin budgets you won’t have much success trying to completely change their workflows—never mind flipping them end-over-end.

Print files are often designed first and the copy is often modified to fit the design—at least where appropriate. Otherwise, InCopy is already XML that can be dropped into print files or exported and walked to convert it to plain HTML/ePUB/Markdown/whatever.

I can understand the motivation, but after years in publishing this might be better suited to a digital-first pub than anybody who goes anywhere near print. Those teams have enough overhead to manage! They want solutions, not corrections, to their needs.

One issue I see, is not having customisation for pages. This is standard on book readers and I can't read books with a white background. Also find the text size frustrating.

Markup language shall be called J-stin

Pandoc?

I had the same thought. I suppose one main difference is this project's focus on importability for Adobe InDesign.