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

[James Simmons]

I wrote a post and submitted it for review.

James Simmons


On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:18 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> sorry, my fault...i just gave you the permissions to make a post
> now...ping me or john and we can review it for you :)
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> adam
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> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 09:02 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>> 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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