Desktop Course - Sections 1 & 2 released for review

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi Billy,

With respect to the XSLT conversion to PDF, I'll get started this weekend on the XSL-FO for PDF creation. The only real problems I can forsee are:

1. Tags needing to be added to the XSL that writers may not be familiar with, or at the very least a strong consistancy in what tags are used.
2. The processing itself - I use FOA 0.6.0, provided under the Mozilla Public License 1.1 (http://foa.sourceforge.net/license.html), I am concious that this project would be considered a commercial work and so am unsure as to how to proceed from here. There are other OSS solutions, however Apache-FO is the most widespread but is unbelievably resource hungry and is also quite unwieldy for large texts (such as this). Any input into this is most welcome.

Cheers,

Dougie Richardson
dougie at lynxworks.eu
http://blog.lynxworks.eu/
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Billy Cina 
  To: ubuntu-training-community at lists.ubuntu.com ; ubuntu-training-support at lists.ubuntu.com ; ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com 
  Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 9:40 AM
  Subject: Desktop Course - Sections 1 & 2 released for review


    Hi all

    We're slightly behind on the deadlines but I hope we can cover lost time. We are thirsty for your input and so have not developed the content to a stage we normally would by now. You will notice it is a little rough around the edges.

    To get started, please refer to:
    https://code.launchpad.net/~canonical-training/ubuntu-desktop-course/ubuntu-desktop-course-beta and view sections 1 & 2 of the 7.10 desktop course. 



    When providing comments, please:

    * Provide comments as a new branch - Branch from ubuntu-desktop-course-beta and make your changes. Please push your updated branch to Launchpad. If possible, commit after fixing one issue and send the branch name and revision number to inspect to this list.
    * Look at the TOC and the approximate time each section should take to cover in class. Remember this is an instructor led course, time is precious and lots of ground to cover so only key elements should be included. 
    * Section 2 - comparison of MS Windows with Ubuntu was especially tricky so we would appreciate some non-slating amendments to that :)

    Bear in mind that the target audience is:
    * A home or corporate desktop user
    * Never used Ubuntu before and probably isn't too thrilled about using any flavour of Linux so we need to make this course as light as possible.
  Formatting:
  * Suggest turning it into a PDF to proof read

  * Don't pay too much attention to format, we are still seeking help with XSLT. Any volunteers welcome.


  Timing:
  * Please can I have any and all comments made as a separate branch by close of play on Sunday 30th September. Any submissions after that will not be reviewed.

  Have fun!


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Billy Cina
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