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

[James Simmons]

Adam,

Fine by me.  I can turn out another one tomorrow on "Book Slog" and
you can put it in the pipeline, if you wish.

James Simmons


On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:32 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> looks _excellent_
>
> i made a few minor edits. mainly to explain to a booki user what FM is
> as they probably dont know FM
>
> i will post it on monday if thats ok with you (John has another one we
> are posting tomorrow, and we are trying to publish 1 a day)
>
>
> adam
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:18 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>> 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 :)
>> >
>> > adam
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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