[FM Discuss] Using drop-caps in FLOSS Manuals

[adam]

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 10:23 -0700, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I would be happy to write a blog post about our fancy stylesheets. At 
> the moment, I have a couple of deadlines competing for my attention ... 
> timing it with the shipping of the Kickstarter rewards would probably 
> work best for me (September 30th - first week of October).
> 

_great!_ if you reg here:
http://blog.booki.cc

i will give you contrib permissions...then write it and i will schedule
it :)

adam



> Rebecca Malamud
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/24/10 7:05 AM, James Simmons wrote:
> > Adam,
> >
> > I was thinking about that myself.  Maybe using a different font family
> > for the first letter would be kind of neat too.  I'll be experimenting
> > with this.
> >
> > The real experts on this kind of thing are Rebecca Malamud and Scotty
> > Auble of the Rural Design Collective.  They are the ones who came up
> > with the styled pages that will be used for their edition of the book.
> >   My own experience with stylesheets is limited to corporate websites.
> > Maybe they could be convinced to do a post on fancy stylesheets.
> >
> > James Simmons
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:39 PM, adam<adam at xs4all.nl>  wrote:
> >> wowsa
> >>
> >> i put the css you suggested into objavi and rendered reading and sugar :
> >> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ReadingandSugar-en-2010.09.24-06.34.29.pdf
> >>
> >> coool........
> >>
> >> could you use something like:
> >> background-image:url('wallpaper.png');
> >>
> >> to make the background more interesting?
> >>
> >>
> >> also...any chance of a blog post about this when you get some time
> >> James?
> >>
> >> adam
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 16:18 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> >>> If you checked out the styled pages that the Rural Design Collective
> >>> put together for my book you probably admired the drop caps that begin
> >>> the first paragraph in each chapter.  I though these were done with
> >>> image files but it turns out that you can do this with styles, like
> >>> this:
> >>>
> >>> p.intro:first-letter {
> >>>     display:block;
> >>>     float:left;
> >>>     border:3px solid #A64942;
> >>>     padding:5px;
> >>>     margin:4px 9px 4px 5px;
> >>>     font-size:73px;
> >>>     background-color: #FAD492;
> >>>     font-style: normal;
> >>>     color: #1C4501;
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> You need to make the first<p>  tag on the page have a class like this:
> >>>
> >>> <p class="intro">
> >>>
> >>> I was able to get the drop caps into my PDF using a custom style
> >>> sheet.  I wanted them to be in my web page as well, so I used a
> >>> <style>  tag to add the style at the top of the page.  The results can
> >>> be seen here:
> >>>
> >>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/ReadingandSugar/Introduction
> >>>
> >>> If you run this through OBJAVI using the default style sheet the
> >>> <style>  in the page is ignored when creating a PDF.  You need to use a
> >>> custom style sheet with the drop cap style included.
> >>>
> >>> While this effect may not be suitable for every FM the book I'm doing
> >>> is about e-books so it's kind of appropriate.  Any thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> James Simmons
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