b-engine features

document support

• Long documents — even those with tens of thousands of words — are paginated and displayed for online reading in micro-seconds.
• TEI Lite (with some extended tag support), HTML and XHTML document support. b-engine also reports on XML compliance. PDF documents can be added to your b-engine collections (please note that there is no support for PDF search highlighting at this time, although b-engine has full-text search support for PDF documents).
• Uniform display of documents — such as journal articles or book chapters — across your publication with CSS (cascading style sheets), including for mixed TEI–HTML publications.
• Unlimited number of documents per publication.
• Unicode entity support — maps macronized vowels.

display support

• Paginates documents to the closest natural break to your specified page word length.
• Permits page-based bookmarking.
• Simple, comprehensive boolean search engine with a number of search form options. Also supports metadata and XML tag based searching.
• Interface able to be customised — comes with multi-page and frame-based templates as well as CSS pages to get you started.
• Automated navigation and table of contents.
• Special formatting features for notes and page breaks — includes pop-up page images.
• be_variables enable you to use b-engine functions in your web pages and embed them in your TEI documents.
• Optional Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs.
• Automated linking to existing PDF versions of your documents.
• Simple to manage RDF-based RSS feeds.
• OpenURL support.

administration

• Secure, web-based administration module which allows you to customise publication features and manage content.
• Up to five publications per site — each can be customised with its own administrative interface.
• Upload documents through a web interface or using your LAN.
• Confirm content organisation and availability when you are ready to publish.
• User logging.