[FM Discuss] Formatting exercises in booki

[Michael McAndrew]

Hi there,

I'm working today on putting our exercises book into booki.

I'm trying to work out the best way to format the exercises.

At the moment, I'm using the following convention

   - each session is a chapter
   - chapter is broken down into parts (heading 2)
   - i'm using normal text for background, descriptions of tasks, etc.
   - Italics to indicate that this is an actual task to be carried out.
   - Formatted for any data associated with the task
   - Numbered lists for any instructions, procedure on how to acheive the
   task

Essentially, I am trying to keep it as simple as possible and then doing
some magic with a custom CSS to make this look cool.  At the mo, it looks
pretty fine in the editor, but understandably the default export CSS doesn't
do it justic, because it is designed for a book, not an exercise book.  I
need something a bit more 'arial' but hopefully that shouldn't be too hard.

A couple of things..

Booki has previews of each indivual chapter in the interface which is great
- it would be *really useful* for me to see an _all preview as well.  that
sound like a good and sensible idea?
I would really appreciate a little discussion with someone about the best
way to do the formatting to make the pdf export as easy as possible (we want
to put it on A4).

Super early draft of a couple of initial chapters here:
http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/civicrmuserandadminexercises-en-2011.04.01-12.39.30.pdf



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