[FM Discuss] Make MYOSA Beautiful!

[adam]

good approach :)

i will also spend some of me own dollars to buy a copy of the book and
send it to the lucky winner of the CSS challenge :)

adam


On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 11:26 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> Calling all CSS experts!  I just received the very first printed copy
> of the book "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" from Lulu.  I used the
> "server default" style sheet in OBJAVI II to make the PDF and it
> looked OK on the screen (Adobe Acrobat magnified the pages 150% or so)
> but in the actual book the print is too small for easy reading and the
> text of the code samples (the most important part of the book) is even
> smaller and faint.
> 
> The book has been removed from Lulu until we can resolve these
> problems.  I have done some fooling around with the style sheet and
> have come up with something that is definitely an improvement, which I
> have pasted to the bottom of this email.  I can probably make it a
> little better on my own.  However, we are talking about the future
> programmers of the world here.  "A little better" just isn't going to
> cut it.
> 
> What I'm looking for is someone who can style the living daylights out
> of this book.  The only rule is that the <pre> tag must be a
> monospaced font, but other than that anything goes as long as the
> results are readable.
> 
> What do you get if your style sheet is used?  Other than the warm
> feeling you'll get from knowing you helped the world's children, you
> can add your bio to the "About The Authors" chapter of the book.
> 
> Send URLs of generated PDFs to me for review.  OBJAVI II will be found at:
> 
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/
> 
> Use the "Show advanced options" button to use an alternate style sheet.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James Simmons
> 
> My own style sheet:
> 
> body {
> /*  font-family: 'Gillius ADF'; */
> /*  font-family: "Beteckna"; */
>   font-family: "Trebuchet MS";
>   background: #fff;
>   color: #000;
> }
> 
> 
> .unseen{
>   z-index: -66;
>   margin-left: -1000pt;
> }
> 
> 
> .objavi-chapter{
>   color: #000;
> }
> 
> h1 .initial{
>   color: #000;
>   font-size: 2em;
> }
> 
> .objavi-subsection{
>   display: block;
>   page-break-before: always;
> /*  page-break-after: always;*/
> /*  text-transform: uppercase; */
>   font-size: 20pt;
> }
> 
> body .objavi-subsection:first-child{
>   page-break-before: avoid;
> }
> 
> 
> .objavi-subsection .initial {
>   font-size: 1em;
>   color: #000;
> }
> 
> .objavi-subsection-heading{
>   font-size: 36pt;
>   font-weight: bold;
> }
> 
> 
> h1 {
>   /* text-transform: uppercase; */
>   page-break-before: always;
>   background: white;
> }
> 
> /*h1.first-heading {
>   page-break-before: avoid;
> }*/
> 
> 
> h2 {
>   /* text-transform: uppercase; */
> }
> 
> table {
>   float: none;
> }
> 
> h1.frontpage{
>   font-size: 64pt;
>   text-align: center;
>   page-break-after: always;
>   page-break-before: avoid;
>   max-width: 700px;
> }
> 
> div.copyright{
>   padding: 1em;
> }
> 
> table.toc {
>   /*border: 1px dotted #999;*/
>   font-size: 17pt;
>   width: 95%;
> }
> 
> 
> td.chapter {
>   padding-left: 2em;
>   text-align: right;
> }
> 
> td.pagenumber {
>   text-align: right;
> }
> 
> td.section {
>   font-size: 1.1em;
>   /* text-transform: uppercase; */
>   font-weight: bold;
> }
> 
> p, ul, ol {
>   page-break-inside: avoid;
> }
> 
> pre, code, tt {
>   font-family: "Courier", "Courier New", monospace;
>   font-size: 1em;
> }
> 
> pre {
>   max-width:700px;
>   overflow: hidden;
> }
> 
> img {
>   max-width: 700px;
>   height: auto;
> }
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