i.     Title
       
       The Publisher

ii.    Author

      Eugenia Levitan

iii.   Abstract

     Web-based book/whitepaper/etc. publishing. The idea being that a user
     feeds in plain text and selects a template for how they would like to 
     see their work displayed and used. User may be able to select from
     available formats, images, animations etc, or provide their own.


iv.   What?
       
       The Publisher will be a simple website that will take as input a
       text file supplied by the user, parse it according to
       its whitespace and certain pre-defined keywords such as "chapter",
       and a format selected by the user from several provided options and
       display the document on the screen when selected.

      The home page will contain a list of documents already available for
      viewing. Click a document link and the document will be displayed 
      for you.  There will also be an option to upload and format a new 
      document. This will be on a separate page where the user will enter 
      the text file to be formatted, select the format they want from an
      available list and apply it to their document.  Each page will
      contain a menu allowing user to go to the home page or add a new 
      document.

v.    Why?
   
      The Publisher is a precursor to and part of a bigger project
      allowing users to submit and publish their works online in a 
      website that will eventually be used as a library and/or gallery 
      (for art work) and/or music hall and/or store for the world to view 
      and comment on and possibly stumble upon some, as of yet, 
      undiscovered talent. :)

      For writers, artists, etc. the final website will (hopefully :)
      allow for publishing works online in a very simple process with as 
      much control over the look and feel of the final outcome as they
      wish to have, potentially matching submitted artwork or artists to 
      writers and their works, etc.  The final work displayed may be as
      simple as plain text displayed in a page or as complicated as an 
      animation or movie depending on the options that the creator(s) 
      selects when publishing. The website will also provide viewing 
      statistics to give writers, artists, musicians, etc. an idea of how
      much interest there is in their work, and other like services. 

      For website viewers, works will be available by genre, author, etc.
      The viewers will be able to view, comment on, and discuss the works
      displayed.  The site will be customized according to user-selected 
      options ranging from a graphics-intensive setting that might include 
      an interactive storyline based on user selected criteria or a plain
      access to available works.
    
vi.   How?
       
       The Publisher will be coded for and on nice utilizing all the
       technologies already available there. The text document will be 
       parsed and copied into an XML document with all coding done in
       Java. The formats will be specified with XSLT and possibly XSL-FO. 
       The web page will be written using JSP and Java Servlets. I will
       attempt to provide a few graphics done with SVG.

vii.  Questions