[LINK] RFI: Cross-Media Publishing under Linux/OO

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Hi Roger,

Requirements for a 2 year plan in the IT world?

If you were wanting to switch today, I would suggest buying a Kogan Agora.
This is the only option for pre-installed Linux (means everything works out
of the box) available in Australia.

The accounting issue is problematic, not helped by the ATO, blind spot on
linux. Though in 2 years, my prediction is that accounting will all be in
the cloud.

Definitely scrap the idea of dual boot.

Linux Text editors highlight markup. Or again look at a
Cloud/Wiki/Blog/Joomla option for your webpages. Look for HTML5 support.

Preparing MS powerpoint presentations, required by conference organisers,
could be a problem...

On the topic, of cross media publishing... I have just published my first
e-book, for which you need XHTML. I am working on a paperback, using Open
Office>PDF, from the XHTML source of the ebook. My Notes are here:
<http://ramin.com.au/linux/formatting-e-books-and-paperbacks.shtml>

If you really want to check out Distros, I have some notes (pre-dating the
latest US DOD offering, posted to link recently) available here:
<http://ramin.com.au/linux/linux-distributions.shtml>

There is a discussion of the DOD distro here:
<http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2011/08/msg00011.html>

My log of switching to Linux, dating back to 2003, is here:
<http://ramin.com.au/linux/>

Marghanita


Roger Clarke wrote:
> Since 1994, I've been preparing documents in Word that can be used to 
> produce both printed/PDF'd format and web-pages.
> 
> I'm looking at a 2-year plan to escape from the increasingly 
> manipulative Apple world (where I've been since April 1984) to Linux 
> and hence OO.
> 
> (The idea is to buy a pre-IOS Mac, dual-bootable with Linux - 
> although I'm not at all sure which distro yet - and migrate from OSX 
> to Linux over a couple of years.  Replacing MYOB may prove to be one 
> of the challenges:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_accounting_software ).
> 
> But I can't see how to replicate my convenient publishing environment!?
> (I'm looking for a *functional* equivalent.  I can learn new habits).
> 
> OO save-as HTML is far too primitive of course.
> 
> The key requirements are:
> -   headers and footers, incl. parameter-setting
> -   hotlinks, anchors and own-HTML insertions
> 
> Details are below.
> 
> The Link Institute's thoughts on how to do it will be much appreciated!
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 
> I produce my web-pages in the following way:
> -   in MS Word 5.1a (1992 - not just unintrusive but very usable)
>      -   making disciplined use of a set of styles that map readily
>          to HTML layout (not CSS of course - this was 1994!)
>      -   with a couple of formatting tricks, described below
> -   save-as RTF (v.1.0)
> -   run it through rtf2html 2.7.5 (also 1992 vintage)
> -   convert any images to jpg
> -   use an editor to clear a couple of HTML format-gremlins that arise
> 
> Primitive-but-very-usable markup facilities enable the inclusion of:
> -   hotlinks in double-underlining
> -   URLs in front of the hotlinks, in double-underlining and hidden
> -   anchors in bold, outline and hidden
> -   paragraphs pre-coded in HTML format, using a style called HTML,
>      which is hidden, and is simply carried over into the output ...
> -   ... and enables HTML headers and footers, including PHP calls,
>      at the beginning and end of the document - key content below
> 
> To produce a version for printing or PDF, I need to hide all 'hidden' 
> text, and remove all double-underlining (although I usually do a bit 
> of prettying up as well).
> 
> The current template is at:
> http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/Web-Paper-Template.mw5
> 
> The current style-sheet definitions are in a .txt file at
> http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/html-trans
> 
> A recent document that exercises most of the features (but not all of 
> the styles) is:
> http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/Passwords.html
> 
> The .rtf file that gave rise to it is at 
> http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/Passwords.rtf.
> (The .rtf versions are normally stored on my machine, not uploaded to 
> the web-server).
> 
> _________________________________________________________________________
> 
> The key header-content is:
> 
> <?php include("pathname.txt"); ?>
> <?php include($home_directory."/Library/stylescall.php"); ?>
> <?php include($home_directory."/Library/header_publicns.txt"); ?>
> <title>Roger Clarke's 'TITLE'</title>
> 
> 
> The key footer-content is:
> 
> <?php $created = 'DATE'; ?>
> <?php $lastperson='Roger Clarke'; ?>
> <?php $lastamended = 'DATE'; ?>
> <?php $footertext = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>
> <?php include($home_directory."/Library/prelimfooter_publicns.txt"); ?>
> <?php include($home_directory."/Library/sponsorshipfooter.txt"); ?>
> <?php include($home_directory."/Library/adminfooter.txt"); ?>
> 
> 


-- 
Marghanita da Cruz
http://ramin.com.au
Tel: 0414-869202