On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 13:59 +1000, Jean Weber wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:17, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 16:26 +1000, Jean Weber wrote:
> >> Dan,
> >>
> >> Recently you published an ePub version of Getting Started with Base.
> >> You mentioned using Calibre and Sigil to create it. I was very
> >> impressed with the result (much better than any other ePub conversion
> >> of a user guide chapter that I've seen). I would be very grateful to
> >> have some instruction in what to do and how to do it... or even just a
> >> few pointers... if and when you have a chance to provide that info.
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> --Jean
> >>
> >
> > I have begun this project. The Alfresco now has the beginning draft
> > of it in the Resources folder. So far, I have covered how to change the
> > title page to what it should be, the Copyright page, and the Contents
> > page (TOC). Tomorrow I will begin working on how to make the text look
> > more like it should.
> > I had to add a heading style to the style sheet to make the title
> > page correct. There will be more styles that will have to be added in a
> > similar way to the stylesheet.css file.
> > The <ol>, <li>, and <ul> tags are not always where they should be
> > so this has to be changed. With the additional styles, some of the
> > classes are also changed.
> > I find that styles in xhtml is very similar to what we have been
> > doing with styles for our documentation. Perhaps you will see this when
> > I have gone further in this project.
>
>
> Dan,
> Thank you so very much for doing this! I'm generally familiar with css
> and xhtml coding, but have not taken the time to get into the details
> of making it all work for our books. You're going to save me hours (or
> days) of work.
>
> --Jean
I did not notice that you had revised what I wrote. Just now I
uploaded a thorough rewrite. It is better organized and contains much
more materials. I think the directions in this revision may save you
even more time. Meanwhile, I will study your revisions to see how to
combine them with mine.
This has been very thought provoking. One of the things that I'm
wondering about is the style sheet used in ePUB. How many of the styles
especially the graphics frame styles (for example, .G-fr) are really
needed. It should be possible to create a style sheet with all the OOo
styles without all the others. Sigil permits replacing the present
stylesheet.ccs file with one of our own choosing. Of course if that is
done, then this requires using find and replace to change the styles in
the code. Ah, one can dream! That would take some time, but it might
also save time in the long run perhaps.
--Dan
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