[FM Discuss] Pretty good PDF for Make Your Own Sugar Activities!

[James Simmons]

Adam,

I disagree on your heading preferences.   It seems to me that a
properly formatted doc would not have any text between the main
heading and the first subheading.   I think that the long h1 looks OK,
although I would like to make the chapter number smaller.

I had offered a couple a blog posts on Monday, one of which was about
working with style sheets.  I'd be happy to do it.  I'm registered as
"nicestep" and as far as I can tell I have no authority to create a
blog post, or if I do it isn't obvious to me how to go about it.  It
would also be better if you were able to review the post before
publication.  I can do it later today if you like.

James Simmons


On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:12 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> looks pretty cool to me :)
>
> there are a few stylistic things that you may wish to consider or
> discard...
> * i think headings (h1) look better in the chapter if they fit on one
> line. So maybe consider shortening the headings eg " A Standalone Python
> Program For Reading Etexts" could be "A Python EText Reader" etc...or
> reduce the h1 font size
> * I also think a heading (h2) directly under a h1 doesnt look so
> hot...just a personal preference (the same chapter also has this)
>
> any chance you could write up a nice how-to on creating the divs etc for
> the booki blog? :)
>
> adam
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 18:04 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>> A pretty good PDF for "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" may be downloaded here:
>>
>> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.09.01-23.19.03.pdf
>>
>> I fixed up the page breaks I didn't like by adding <div> tags by hand
>> to the text and defining a new style to for a page break after an
>> element of that class.  Not the most elegant solution, but it worked.
>> The stylesheet I used may be found here:
>>
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8919415/myosa.css
>>
>> Oceana Rain Fields may be providing a new cover illustration and a bio
>> for the "About The Authors" chapter, but this PDF could be used to at
>> least start revising the cover PDF.
>>
>> I've looked it over and it looks pretty good to me, but as always if
>> anyone else sees something that could be improved I'd be interested in
>> hearing about it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> James Simmons
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