One of the many advantages of encoding transcriptions or editions in a semantic markup language is the separation of presentation and content. This means that the same file can serve different purposes and be used in different contexts. One incarnation may represent the text as a traditional critical edition set up on a print page with one or several critical apparatus, another incarnation may be a interactive web page presenting the text alongside images of a manuscript, and yet another a e-reader friendly version with explanatory notes for students.

But this separation of presentation and content also means that it may be difficult to envision how a finished edition may look like. This app provides an easy interface for converting a XML transcription to a pdf document.

Your XML document must be valid and in compliance with the LombardPress Schema for critical and diplomatic editions.

You can either upload you own documents or fetch a document from the scta database. If you have your own XSLT script for conversion of the XML document, you can upload that. Otherwise the app will use a default Lombard Press transformation script. The script used is based on which version of the LombardPress Schema that the transcription is based on.

On the url /compile you can also pass the id and output as url parameters. The url could then look like this:

<hostname>/compile?id=lectio1&output=tex

This will return a JSON response of either an error message or the url of the output file.

Parameters:

• id: A valid SCTA id. It can either be a full SCTA url (http:https://scta.info/resource/lectio1) or just the id (lectio1).
• output: Which format should be created? Possibilities are tex and pdf.

When you have a running instance, try curl -i http:https://127.0.0.1:5000/compile\?id\=http:https://scta.info/resource/lectio1 (or replace the hostname appropriately).

This is still a young app, so it may produce unexpected output. Anything may be subject to change, and I cannot guarantee for the safety of your texts, computer or sanity when using the app.

Please report any problems you experience in the issue tracker.

Download the repo:

git clone https://github.com/stenskjaer/lbp_print-web-app.git

If you just want to experiment locally (or maybe make a pull request!), you should probably create a virtual environment for the project. To do that, run:

$ mkvirtualenv -p python3 <name>

Where <name> is the name you want to give the venv.

After activating the venv (workon or source), install dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Finally, you also need to create some directories:

mkdir -p upload static/output logs

You can run a local development server with python3 service.py if you want to test it with gunicorn (equivalent to the Dockerized server), run:

gunicorn --worker-class eventlet -w 1 -b 0.0.0.0:5000 service:app

If you want to build the Docker image, run (from the project directory):

docker build -t lbp-print .

Now, to run:

docker run -p 80:80 lbp-print

The app should be available on localhost.

All pull requests and issue reports are very welcome! ♡