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FYI
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)
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Guys, I want to suggest that OASIS establish style
specifications for specifications and committee notes. TC
administration and TCs then can work from those style
specifications to build the following:
- Stylesheets for rendering from DITA
- Stylesheets for rendering from Docbook
- Word templates for OASIS TCs that use Word
- Open Office templates for OASIS TC that use Open Office
This would be much more efficient, not to mention being a more
appropriate process for OASIS! And I'd be glad to help OASIS
with methodology for documenting document-rendering
specifications, as I am sure others would also.
It's very painful and time-consuming to reverse-engineer style
specifications from a Word template. And it often seems as if we
are working with moving targets ...
Can we change this process? Please?
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)
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Latest template for committee notes.
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)
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Hi Chet and Kris,
I'm attaching the new templates for Notes in MS-Word
(DOCX) format.
These use Liberation Sans and Liberation Mono for
almost all styles.
I think that the font sizes used here are the ones we
will want to use for the DITA Notes. I think that the
fractional font sizes Kris found in the PDF from Chet are
an artifact of the PDF generation. I don't think we've
used fractional fonts in the editable templates (MS-Word
and Open Office).
Best regards,
Paul
Sounds like we're interested in common
goals here.ÂÂ
We are investigating the use ofÂLiberation Sans
as a replacement for Arial, Calibri, Cambria,
and similar fonts.
Basic background here:
It appears to be bundled with Open Office,
LibreOffice, MS-Word. (On my system, anyway).
We're planning to assemble a Notes template
based on Liberation Sans as the primary
sans-serif font. (Any comments on this are
welcome!)
It would be a good opportunity for us to
clearly pin down font sizes, and likely other
style elements which have historically been a
bit neglected.
Best regards,
Paul
Ditto, thanks Kris! I didn't realize we
had fonts showing up in fractional sizes.Â
/chet
Hi Kris and all,
Thanks for assembling this so clearly!Â
It's very useful to consider several of these
items together.
I'll dig into this and see what the next
steps might be.
Best regards,
Paul
Hi, Paul.
I'm comparing the PDF that Chet sent in
November with what we we have in our
current style sheets. Here are the changes
that I identify:
Change
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Notes
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Comments/Things we
need from OASIS
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New header for cover
page. Includes:
- New logo
- The text "OASIS Committee
Note"
- A line
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Text = Arial, 18 pt
bold, #707070
Line = ?
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- High-quality version of the
logo
- Specifications for the line:
Color and thickness
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Cover page titles
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Text = Arial (replace
Cambria), bold, #446CAA (replace #?)
Various font weights:
Note Title Version = 24 pt
Committee Note Draft NN = 18pt
(replace 16 pt, add bold)
Specification URIs = 12 pt (replace
14 pt, eliminate padding below)
...
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OASIS: I am going to
change the fonts and colors, but
largely leave the font sizes as is.
Then let's look at the results and
see what you think.
It does not look like the PDF that
you sent us is a final design; it
has less-than-ideal font sizes
(10.80 pt and 8.88 pt) and padding
for elements.
Can we standardize font sizes to use
whole numbers?
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Sidebar on cover page
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Remove
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Footer on cover page
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Add; the old design
did not have the footer.
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Footer
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Render copyright
statement on a single line; bottom
aligned
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Header
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Remove
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Body titles
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Text = Arial (replace
Cambria) bold
H1 = 18 pt
H2 = 13.92 pt (replace 14 pt)
H3 = 12.96 pt
H4 = Not defined
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Can we standardize
font sizes to use whole numbers? |
Body text
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Calilbri 10.80 pt
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Footer text
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Calibri 8.88 pt
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Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)
On
1/28/2019 10:47 AM, Kristen James Eberlein
wrote:
FYI. Forwarding to the list so that I
can reference this in a GitHub issue.
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein
Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)
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Hi folks,Â
After reviewing possible designs
for a new Committee Note with the
TAB and several interested members,
we have settled on the attached.
This eliminates the fat blue bar
that took up the so much real estate
on the first page and the header
that reminded you, page after page,
that THIS ISN'T STANDARDS TRACK! Oye
vey.Â
Instead, it uses a label, just
under the OASIS logo, to identify
this as a Committee Note and it
states in the Status section that
the patent provisions of the OASIS
process don't apply. It is cleaner,
matches our new color scheme, and
makes Committee Notes less like ugly
step children.Â
Ken, Kris, Dave, let us know what
information you want regarding
colors, etc. Paul, let's go ahead
and update the cover page template
when you get a chance.Â
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/chetÂ
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