[FM Discuss] Formatting exercises in booki

[adam]

> Hi there,
>
> I'm working today on putting our exercises book into booki.

fm booki right? :)

>
> 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. 

very 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. 

ok...looking fwd to see what you do with it...

> I need something a bit more 'arial' but hopefully that shouldn't be 
> too hard.

also consider using @font-face and look at some of the fonts here:
http://www.openfontlibrary.org/
(its offline for a few days)

or here:
http://www.exljbris.com/

>
> 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?

it sounds like a great idea:
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/civicrm-user-and-admin-exercises/_full/

:)

> 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

what is it you dont like about it? one issue i noticed last week and I 
wrote to Douglas about is that if there is no section in the TOC then 
the page numbers dont render corrctly...you may wish to put an intial 
section at the top...this bug will be fixed shortly I hope



adam

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