Textbook-l November 2003

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Jim Morrison
by Thomas R. Koll 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi folks, Almost two years ago I've written about 20 pages on Jim Morrison's life and work. Is anybody (I'm too busy with university and keeping de:wikipedia clean) interested in making a textbook out of it? Sure, it might not be that interesting like good old Shakespeare or [[Runescape]] but it's just an offer from me to you. If someone does that job I promise to do the German translation (a thing I'm planning all the time...) http://www.tomk32.de/Facharbeit/ (txt, tex, lyx, pdf and html) ciao, tom -- http://www.tomk32.de - just a geek trying to change the world -.- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TomK32 /|> http://tomk32.bookcrossing.com / \ http://tinyurl.com/u6de

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wikibooks written up in The Hindu
by Karl Wick 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

This is an Indian newspaper that I just noticed wrote an article about our site a couple of weeks ago: http://www.hindu.com/biz/2003/10/27/stories/2003102700010200.htm __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

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pdf files
by Karl Wick 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

That site works pretty well, does a respectable job at maintaining formatting even if it doenst do colors or table frames or some special characters. It did do intra-file links from the table of contents though. Looks like its released under some sort of free licence. Thanks Theresa ! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

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pdf files
by KNOTT, T 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Most of you have probably seen Maffus comment in the staff lounge, but just in case you haven't-: PDF or other e-Book method? Being new to Wikipedia, perhaps this is an old question. Are there any means to obtain a PDF file or other electronic book (other than HTML)? When I select "Printable Version" it would be very nice if I could find a PDF link (or something similar). Maffu 00:36, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC) I've done a search for html to pdf converters on the web and found this site. http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/pdf-o-matic.php which provides a program that converts html pages to pdf. It's not for me, I'm still on Windows. But are there any Unix users who want to download it. Theresa

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textbook standards
by Karl Wick 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

When I do a search on Google for "textbook standards" this is the very first link that comes up: www.wikibook.org/wiki/Wikibooks:_Textbook_Standards The only problem is that the page is blank. I thought I had created a page like that a long time ago .. is there any chance that it got deleted along the way ? Just weird that it is first on google and does not even exist. Anyway recent emails with Sanford are reminding me of the importance of writing books, that adhere to CA standards so he can use it to promote the open content model over there and get some props for our site. We just need one good example to start. The CA standards link: http://www.cde.ca.gov/standards/ Sanford has also spent extensive time investigating grant opportunities for the site but has not turned up any donors yet as the site is so different than the way we have been traditionally viewed education and educational materials. When we have a poster-child book that adheres to the standards it may be able to get us some funding. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

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Can't delete image
by KNOTT, T 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

I can't seem to delete the image Image:Paris.PNG (which I have replaced with a jpg version) when I click on the (del) link on the description page I get this: "Bad title >From Wikibooks, the free textbook project. The requested page title was invalid, empty, or an incorrectly linked inter-language or inter-wiki title. Return to Main Page." Any ideas as to what's wrong ? Theresa

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Textbook-l November 2003