3Rabbitz Book supports Structured Authoring that can facilitate efficient collaborations. Structured Authoring proceeds in the following order.
First, create a book.
Create chapters within a book.
Add independent paragraphs within a chapter.
In this chapter, we will explain how to create a book and chapters. For more on how to create independent paragraphs within a chapter, please refer to Editor.
Creating a Book
In the <Dashboard> menu, you can create and edit a book. If the <Dashboard> menu does not appear, then click on the <BOOK> menu in the upper right corner.
If it is still invisible, then it is because you don’t have the “write” role. In this case, you need to ask your administrator.
You can create a book in the following order.
Click on the <Create Book> link on the screen.
In the input form, enter your basics, styles, options and components of a book and click on the <Save> button.
In most of the input form, you can press the <Enter>
1 key to save it.
The following is a list of descriptions of the main input fields.
If a field in the input form has a asterisk mark, then it means that it is a mandatory input item.
Basics
- Title
Enter the title of a book.
- Subtitle
Enter the subtitle of a book.
- Edition
Enter the edit version of a book you are preparing.
- Authors
Enter the name of an author for a book. The default is set to the name of the user who created a book.
- Subject
Enter the overall topic of a book.
- Keyword
Enter the keywords for the overall content that a book is dealing with.
- Language
Select a language that is used to prepare the contents of a book.
- Labels
Refer to Grouping Books with Labels.
Style
Select Web Theme and Web Viewer Layout applied to your Web Viewer. For more details, please refer to Theme and Web Viewer Layout.
Components of a Book
You can create necessary chapters for your book. For more on what type of chapter to select, refer to Structure of a Book
Option
Select a desirable option by referring to the following descriptions.
Option | Description | Applicable to |
---|---|---|
Use Arabic page numbers for the front matter. | As a page number for the front matter chapter, use Roman numbers are used by default. If you want to use Arabic numbers, please select this option. | |
Start a chapter on an odd-numbered page. | If you want to start a chapter on an odd numbered(left) page, then select this option. For this reason, a blank page can be inserted automatically. | |
Indent text after heading elements. | Although you activate indentation for “Normal” in theme, no indentation is done following a title paragraph. If you want indentation after a title paragraph, please select this option. | Web Viewer, PDF, EPUB |
Organizing the Table of Contents
In the <Table of Contents> panel of the detailed book screen, you can create chapters.
Creating a Chapter
You can create a chapter in the following order.
Click on the <Create Chapter> link in the <Table of Contents> panel.
After entering the basics and options in the input form, click on the <Save> button.
The following is a list of descriptions of the main input fields.
Basics
- Title
Enter the title of a chapter.
- Type
Select the type of a chapter.
- Subtitle
Enter the subtitle of a chapter.
- Authors
Enter the name of an author for a chapter.
Option
- Disable Edit
Select this option if you want to prohibit editing of the content of this chapter.
- Exclude
If you want to hide a chapter from specific exports, select this option.
Importing Chapters from Other Book
You can import chapters from other books in the following order.
Click on the <Import Chapters from Other Book> link in the <Table of Contents> panel.
Select the book that contains the chapters to import.
Select the chapters to import.
Select either of “By Copy ” or “By Reference”.
Click on the <Save> button.
Type | Description |
---|---|
By Copy | You can create a new chapter by copying the contents of it. After that, you can edit two chapters separately. |
By Reference | You will simply make a link between the two without copying the contents. You can only edit the original chapter and the changes made will be reflected in the both chapters. If you want to reuse the chapter with the same contents, please use this option. |
Importing a MS Word File
You can import a word file in the following order.
You can only import a word file with a docx extension.
Click on the <Import Word File> in the <Table of Contents> panel.
Click the <Import> link to select a word file.
If you want to divide up the contents of a single word file into many chapters, then you are recommended to first separate a word file, and upload them individually.
Editing Chapter Content
If you want to edit the content of a chapter, you can click on the <Edit Content> link of the chapter.
Creating a Part Type Chapter
You can group many chapters as a part.
If you select “Part” as a type of your chapter then the chapter will be shown as a part. Unless another part type chapter appears, they will all be placed under the same part.
Part 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Part 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
By the way, as shown below, you can choose not to include chapter 5 under part 2 and instead put it at the same level as part 2.
Part 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Part 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
For this purpose, you need to select the option called “Same as Part Level”.
You can only use a part in the text. You can’t use it in the front and back matter.
Changing the Order of Table of Contents
A newly made chapter will be placed in the front matter, text or back matter depending on its type.
Using drag and drop, you can change the order of Table of Contents.
In the <Table of Contents> panel, place your mouse cursor on the chapter to change the order for. Moving mark() will be displayed.
After clicking on the moving mark, drag the chapter into the desirable location.
By moving it, you will end up saving the changes made.
Updating Access Control for Your Book
You can set the access control for your book in the following order.
Click on the <Update Access Control> link in the <Access Control> panel of the detailed book screen.
After assigning user to owner, collaborator and reviewer, click on the <Save> button.
Owners, collaborators and reviewers have the following characteristics.
Type | Description |
---|---|
Owners | A owner can perform all the tasks pertaining to a book, such as deleting a book, creating a chapter and setting an access control. |
Collaborators | A joint author who can edit the contents of a chapter. |
Reviewers | A reviewer can use Web Viewer to review the contents of a book. |
You should pay attention to the following when setting the access control.
An ownership is automatically granted to the user who created a book.
There must exist at least one owner.
If you delete yourself from the list of owners and save the results, then your ownership for the book will be gone.
Owner | Collaborator | Reviewer | |
---|---|---|---|
Export | Web Viewer Download PDF Download EPUB | Web Viewer Download PDF Download EPUB | Web Viewer Download PDF Download EPUB |
Book Information | Update Book | - | - |
Table of contents | Create and Update Chapter Import Chapters from Other Book Import Word File Edit Content Delete Change the Order of TOC | - - - Edit Content - - | - - - Review Content - - |
Access control | Update Access Control | - | - |
Tagging & Publishing | Create and Change Tag Rebuild File | - - | - - |
ETC
Deleting Books and Chapters
You need to pay attention to the following when you delete a book or chapter.
Once you delete a book or chapter, you will never be able to restore it.
If you delete a book, all the chapters within it will be also gone.
Searching for Books
You can perform searches by following keywords in the list of books.
Title
Subtitle
Edition
Authors
Alphabets used are case sensitive.
Grouping Books with Labels
You can group multiple books with labels or facilitate searches for specific books. You can use labels in the following order.
Enter the labels when you create or change a book.
Use semi colons, comma or space to separate more than one labels.
The label list is displayed on top of the book list.
Clicking on a specific label, the books with that label will appear in the list.
- In Mac OS, you need to press the <RETURN> key.