Shinyu Murakami on Vivliostyle and the state of webbased publishing

Shinyu Murakami of Vivliostyle

With version 3.5, Fidus Writer is switching to Vivliostyle for PDF generation. Vivliostyle is a Japan-based open source project to do PDF rendering using browser technology. The main person behind Vivliostyle is Shinyu Murakami from the northern Japanese town of Sendai, now living with his wife, a speech therapist and book author, in Saitama near… read more

Citations for professionals: An interview with Emilano Heyns

When we launched the first public version of Fidus Writer in May 2013, we received a flood of bug reports. One of those reporting bugs was Emiliano Heyns, at the time a philosophy student and open source hacker, with a special interest in bibliographies and citations. Two initial reports about lacking categories in bibliographies quickly… read more

Let’s gist Again

Here it is! Our second interview about interesting topics in the wide space of publishing and communication in academia. This time we interviewed Jure Triglav who has started the interesting project ScienceGist. Read about Jure and his effort to open the spectrum of science communication.   You recently started out with Science Gist. What is… read more

Math in the browser

We reccently decided we want to reach out to other projects and people operating in the same space as Fidus Writer and let them present issues important to the space we all operate in here — be it article creation, browser technologies or book design. We here start out by interviewing Peter Krautzberger of the… read more