On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:35 AM, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marc, Jean, > Am 06.02.2013 09:45, schrieb Marc Paré: > > [...] >> (For example, my school board operates 51 libraries, some small/others >> quite large, sample texts arrive weekly to the libraries and most often >> are not put on the stacks but are either left on a shelf for later >> disposal or distributed to teachers who think may use them, BUT only >> after being vetted by the head librarian to make sure the texts follow >> school board teaching philosophies and programme expectations. If the >> texts do not follow programme expectations, then they are not accepted >> for library use. In our case, the LibreOffice guides fit in well but >> still must go through internal vetting approval process. The more >> well-known are guides the shorter the vetting process.) > > In Germany many libraries start now to offer e-books. And I think many > in Canada/Australia and all over the world do this. > Why don't you try to get our e-books (epub/pdf) first in the libraries? > No expenses. When we will get in such a library then the question about > written books will come from the users. > > Ok, there is for now only one epub for Getting started 3.3 [1] but this > may be an Easy Hack for documentation list doing it especially with 4.0. > And all books are available as pdf. > > [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
This is a good idea. PDFs are available, but I do not think the formatting of the eBook for 3.3 (done by Lulu) is very good. Creating a well-formatted eBook is not easy, because our template contains features (including the tables for tips, notes, cautions, and the use of custom styles for headings, among other things) that do not convert well. This is a big reason why I want to change some things in the template. Dan Lewis has notes on how he hacked the conversion of one chapter, but we need to improve the template and the process. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
