2019/09/04

• event

Vivliostyle Developer and User Meeting 2019 Summer was held!

• Shinyu Murakami (Representative Director, Vivliostyle Project Leader)

(The original article is “Vivliostyle 開発者とユーザーの集い 2019 夏 開催しました！” in Japanese)

Saturday, August 31, 2019, Vivliostyle Developer and User Meeting 2019 Summer (in Tokyo) hosted by Vivliostyle User Group and Vivliostyle Foundation was held in cooperation with the JAGAT XML Publishing Study Group. Thank you to everyone who participated and cooperated!

Presentation materials at the event are available:
(all presentations are in Japanese)

Part 1: Vivliostyle Developer Meeting

• Vivliostyle Development, the past and toward the future
  by Shinyu Murakami (@MurakamiShinyu) Vivliostyle Foundation

I just organized Vivliostyle issues into projects by issue category using GitHub Projects - vivliostyle. So I asked the meeting participants which projects were important (multiple answers). The results were:

• Bugs: 7 votes
• PDF printing: 7 votes
• Input formats: 7 votes
• Paged media: 15 votes
• Typography: 8 votes
• Layout enhancement: 10 votes
• Web standards: 7 votes
• Other improvements:
  • Improved error handling (more stable): 5 votes
  • UI multilingualization: 3 votes
  • Search function: 3 votes
  • Chrome extension: 6 votes
  • Documentation: 12 votes

Part 2: Vivliostyle User Meeting

• Vivliostyle user group joint magazine production | Markdown complexity and deadline
  by spring-raining (@spring_raining) Vivliostyle User Group
• Convenient usage of Vivliostyle and related tools
  by Shinyu Murakami (@MurakamiShinyu) Vivliostyle Foundation
• CSS typesetting and production secret story of “Ruby understood by comics”
  by
  • Minatogawa Ai (@llminatoll) author of “Learn with Wakaba-chan” series
  • Youchan (@youchan) Rubyist, author of ”Cat, Shinra, Japanese language and Ruby“
• Typesetting vertical text movie script with Vivliostyle
  by Ogata Katsuhiro (@ogwata) Denno MAVO LLC. A freelance writer on characters and computer
• I tried CSS typesetting! by Yamasy (@yamasy1549)
• Fun typesetting ｜ markdown to PDF by Hidemi Ishihara (@hidemi_ishihara)
• Create PDF from EPUB files with Vivliostyle by Jun Tajima (@JunTajima) ebook soul

Tweets on the event

• Togetter (twitter log): Vivliostyle Developer and User Meeting 2019 Summer (in Japanese)
  • Twitter hash tag: #Vivliostyle

Blog articles by event participants

• akabeko.me: Vivliostyle Developer and User Meeting 2019 Summer (in Japanese)
• senooken.jp: Report on Vivliostyle Developer and User Meeting 2019 Summer (in Japanese)