[OSGeo-Edu] Some thoughts on the production of educational materialabout FOSS Geospatial Tools

[Landon Blake]

Simon wrote: " The problem is that content stored in this format is
difficult to maintain 
and/or translate, as the file needs to be disassembled then updated or 
converted then reassembled."

I look at the PDF as a final product, and the ODF as the working
document. So the ODF would be the document being maintained, while the
PDF would be overwritten or replaced every time changes to the ODF
occur.

I hope that makes sense.

I'm also working on a standard way to mark-up magazine articles in HTML.
That may be helpful for storing some OSGeo education content in HTML.

Landon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Cropper [mailto:scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au] 
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 8:34 PM
To: Landon Blake
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Some thoughts on the production of educational
materialabout FOSS Geospatial Tools

On Tuesday 10 August 2010 1:17:12 am you wrote:

Thanks for the feedback Landon,

> (1) Write the article in Open Office. This allowed me to take
advantage
> of spell check and features like headers and footers.

This is what I do.

> (2) Produce a PDF from the article in Open Office.

Me to...

> (3) Convert the article text into HTML (by hand) using a web article
> template.

Actually, this is what I do, whenever I have content that will go to a
web 
page (that's scary). Most editors, OO probably falls into the same
category, 
are not W3C compliant and introduce many weird and wonderful problems to

websites when content is used directly.

So paraphrasing your response: OO -> PDF is something you find easy.

Seems to be a consistent theme. PDF files created in this way are easy
to 
catalogue and disseminate.

The problem is that content stored in this format is difficult to
maintain 
and/or translate, as the file needs to be disassembled then updated or 
converted then reassembled.

-- 
Cheers Simon

	Simon Cropper
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