[FM Discuss] Formatting exercises in booki

[Michael McAndrew]

Hey

On 1 April 2011 12:04, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:

>  Hi there,
>
> I'm working today on putting our exercises book into booki.
>
>
> fm booki right? :)
>

ya!

>
>
> 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
>

cool 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/
>
>
> thanks

>
> 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/
>
> :)
>

nice

>
>
>  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
>

um, let me think...

i would like the hints/steps to look more like hints/steps, and I would like
to have a task image so it is easy to see what tasks you have done - maybe
even box that you can tick to say that you have done it.  Could do this
through css or maybe just add an image at the start of every task.

Would also like to ensure there is space for notes but maybe this is stuff
we can do in the text rather than in the css.  We'll see once I've got all
the exercises in there.

am wondering if this will look ok when the size is A4.

It looks a bit too stylish - I was hoping for something more bland and
institutional ;)



adam
>




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