Pause Press

A project in electronic publishing.

Charles Woodbury’s Talks With Emerson (1890). Edited and encoded in TEI XML and presented in your browser.
Epigram Microphone by Mark Scott (2017). Converted from MS Word Office Open XML format into HTML via BITS using XSweet, by Wendell Piez.
- This is XML processed in your browser with XSLT 3.0, using SaxonJS.
- An old-fashioned single web page HTML version makes for a comparison.
- Or call up the BITS source data (using more experimental display in the browser using XSLT 1.0: you may have to View Source to see the BITS).
- EPUB version produced with JATSKit.

Mission

Pause Press explores, first, the notion that just because a piece of writing is presented in electronic form, it should not have to be awful. An electronic production should be just as easy and fun to read as a print version. Engineering means compromises, yet constraints are the basis of art.

Occasionally I come across a book which I feel has been written especially for me and for me only. Like a jealous lover, I don't want anybody else to hear of it. To have a million such readers, unaware of each other's existence, to be read with passion and never talked about, is the daydream, surely, of every author.

W. H. Auden, “Reading.” The Dyer's Hand (1948).