[opensuse-doc] Is this list alive? Cooperation with openSUSE-Education ?
Hi all First: I haven't received a message from this list since Mar 2008 - is this just a fault in my configuration or is this list really so quiet? But my initial reason for "pinging" here is the great success in the openSUSE Education team: we're using your "Lessons for lizzards" book as base for our openSUSE Education handout [1]. Thanks for your great work in this area of "pre-configuring" a useful book format in xml! Currently I'm working to get the openSUSE-Education book build within the build process of a RPM, so packaging pre-build pdf's and html (as currently done in LfL) should not be necessary any more. Thanks to Thomas who's helping me much in this area. The openSUSE-Education handout currently contains some package descriptions for gcompris, italc, LTSP and Tuxpaint. Perhaps these descriptions can also be used in the Lessons for Lizzards book? Other question: I like to integrate some of the current LfL articles (for example: the KDE-kiosk one) in the openSUSE-Education handout - is this ok for you? Or should we find a better way for cooperation? :-) With kind regards, Lars [1]: http://www.opensuse-education.org/download/repo/installation_on_10_3.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 08 September 2008 11:41:48 Lars Vogdt wrote: Hi,
First: I haven't received a message from this list since Mar 2008 - is this just a fault in my configuration or is this list really so quiet?
this list is alive, but we are currently sleeping the sleep of the just ;-))
The openSUSE-Education handout currently contains some package descriptions for gcompris, italc, LTSP and Tuxpaint. Perhaps these descriptions can also be used in the Lessons for Lizzards book?
Sounds good - could you point me to the sources?
Other question: I like to integrate some of the current LfL articles (for example: the KDE-kiosk one) in the openSUSE-Education handout - is this ok for you? Or should we find a better way for cooperation? :-)
Lfl is licensed under the GFDL, so IMHO you can use it's contents as long as the edu book is also licensed under the GFDL. I am not sure whether you need permission from the author (if so, you have got mine for the Kiosk chapter ;) ), you should probably ask Jürgen or Ciarran to be sure (and please let us know). -- Regards Frank Frank Sundermeyer, Technical Writer, Documentation SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0, Fax: +49-911-7417755; http://www.opensuse.org/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) "Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane" Dogbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org
Hi On Mittwoch 10 September 2008 10:20:11 Frank Sundermeyer wrote:
First: I haven't received a message from this list since Mar 2008 - is this just a fault in my configuration or is this list really so quiet?
this list is alive, but we are currently sleeping the sleep of the just ;-))
Ah! Good to hear :-)
The openSUSE-Education handout currently contains some package descriptions for gcompris, italc, LTSP and Tuxpaint. Perhaps these descriptions can also be used in the Lessons for Lizzards book?
Sounds good - could you point me to the sources?
https://svn.linux-schulserver.de/viewvc/packages/opensuse-education-docu/tru... or svn checkout https://svn.linux-schulserver.de/repos/oss-edu/packages/opensuse-education-d... os-edu-book
Other question: I like to integrate some of the current LfL articles (for example: the KDE-kiosk one) in the openSUSE-Education handout - is this ok for you? Or should we find a better way for cooperation?
:-)
Lfl is licensed under the GFDL, so IMHO you can use it's contents as long as the edu book is also licensed under the GFDL.
Yes, same for us: GFDL.
I am not sure whether you need permission from the author (if so, you have got mine for the Kiosk chapter ;) ), you should probably ask Jürgen or Ciarran to be sure (and please let us know).
Thanks - as both books are under the same "free" license, I think asking Jürgen or Ciarran is not necessary. But I like to inform the original authors when we use their texts. ;-) FYI: Looks like the only thing left to build the book in the Build Service is the font definition in the susedoc package: /usr/share/susedoc/etc/FOP/fop-suse.xml contain references to fonts in the agfa-fonts package (which has a commercial license). Does anybody know if there are really free fonts that can be used instead of the agfa-fonts (Note: we need ISO-8858-5 and ISO-8859-15 or UTF-8) ? ...and how to overwrite the settings in the susedoc package with that fonts? With kind regards, Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org
Hi, On Mittwoch 10 September 2008, Lars Vogdt wrote:
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I am not sure whether you need permission from the author (if so, you have got mine for the Kiosk chapter ;) ), you should probably ask Jürgen or Ciarran to be sure (and please let us know).
Thanks - as both books are under the same "free" license, I think asking Jürgen or Ciarran is not necessary. But I like to inform the original authors when we use their texts. ;-)
FYI: Looks like the only thing left to build the book in the Build Service is the font definition in the susedoc package: /usr/share/susedoc/etc/FOP/fop-suse.xml contain references to fonts in the agfa-fonts package (which has a commercial license).
Yes, that's true. Unfortunately I hadn't had the time to look into it. It's one of my todos on my list. Patches are welcome. :-)
Does anybody know if there are really free fonts that can be used instead of the agfa-fonts (Note: we need ISO-8858-5 and ISO-8859-15 or UTF-8) ?
You could try the DejaVu or LinuxLibertine fonts. However, you will soon hit the problematic field of typography: As far as I know, LinuxLibertine has only a serif font, they are working on a sans serif at the moment. DejaVu is rather complete and have serif, sans serif, and a monospace font. The monospace font is a bit too wide in my point of view.
...and how to overwrite the settings in the susedoc package with that fonts?
Try to set the environment variable FOP_CONFIG_FILE. Bye, Tom -- Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX GmbH >o) Documentation Specialist Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ 90409 Nuernberg _\_v http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation_Team http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Lessons_for_Lizards http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/thomas-schraitle/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org
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