On 10/04/2008, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> wrote:
The answer from the publisher is yes (from wiley.com), there
> will be a PDF available, but it may take 6-8 weeks after the
> printed edition is available.
>So the next question is: will the PDF be fully hyperlinked with
links from the TOC to chapters/sections/tables/figures, hyperlinked
to external web sites, and hyperlinked from the index to items on
the page?
Almost certainly not, unfortunately. Wiley's production processes have yet
to enter the XML age.
I worked for a large publisher a while back and one jobs I did was to
transform XML that was generated by (apparently) reverse engineering
whatever file they send to the printers.
The XML was pretty basic but I was able to upconvert a lot of it into
useful hyperlinks. One problem I remember was where words were broken
across a line and a hyphen was added, for example on the printed page
you would have:
blah blah blah fundam-
ental.
In the XML this would just be "fundam-ental"...
Anyway, perhaps this sort of XML would be available from Wiley?
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