The awesomely talented Arthur Attwell is working on a starter kit for Paged.js stylesheets. Should be interesting…can’t wait until it’s ready! It should be enough that a beginner can look at the stylesheets and learn how CSS rules apply to books a la pagedmedia CSS controls and specifications.
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New Aperture Site Up
The lovely folks at the Aperture project have a new site up. Hoping their platform development plans go well!
Wax List Management
Vid showing Wax lists at work. Might not seem a big deal but it’s been a long haul getting here. We now have fully customisable list management in Wax 1. Importantly though, it shows a fairly traditional list style with typical names (numbered list etc) but we have complete style control so you customise the styles for any number of named list types. Which means no arbitrary styling/list creation. Having this sort of named-style control and not using one ‘universal list’ type that you must manually identify and style when typesetting – is important for publishers. One list style-type does *not* rule them all. Nice work Christos.
Interesting Article on Siyavula
Article on an awesome project that I’ve been following for a long time and happy to consider as friends…
“Siyavula is known as a pioneer developer of high-quality free digital maths and science textbooks to address resource gaps and disadvantage in South African schools. This case study identifies the success factors which could be replicated in other contexts.”
Time for a coffee?
I’ll be in SF, NYC, Berlin and Cambridge (UK)/London over the next two weeks between Feb 25 and March 15. I have some time in my calendar if anyone is in those cities and would like to catch up.
Some Google Docs alternatives
I think web based word processors are about to become a lot more prolific. The underlying tech is no longer the sole domain of large tech orgs like MS and Google. A couple of interesting offerings…
Is it a claim to fame?
TMobile US cut off my roaming because “I roamed too much” in 2018. I was 8 or 9 months on the road…funny I thought that wasn’t too abnormal. So, now I also have a NZ SIM to use when roaming… about a year ago I was trying to survive with almost no phone…now I have 2…ugh…
Editoria Community Roadmap Looking good!
Recently updated table of the Editoria Roadmap. We may miss the 1 March deadline but just by a couple of weeks (upgrade took a little longer than expected). Congratulations to Alexis, Giannis and Christos for all the awesome work so far!
Good News From Europe PMC
Just soooo good…