11-10-2003, om 20:18 schreef Sanford Forte:
> Question: The Connexions Project at Rice
http://cnx.rice.edu/ has the
> facility to be able to create printed pages quite easily, or so I've been
>led to believe by several people who have participated in that project.
Is
>here any possibility of hooking up this pilot
project with Connexions, or
>learning from them, as regards the printing constraints in Wikipedia?
Wouter Vanden Hove:
The Connexions-software platform will be released to the public in
december. Connexions uses masterfiles in XML (CNXML) that can be
converted to other formats.
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This is wonderful news; thanks Wouter!
Several months ago someone who had been given a thorough demo of Connexions'
software told me that they had "solved the web-to-print problems that open
source content models have heretofore lacked". He claimed that the
Connexions software was very facile, transparent, and was able to nicely
format text-to-print. He was also very excited about the formatting control
with mathematical and scientific notation.
Essentially, with their software release, Connexions will be enabling anyone
who wants to do open source text-to-print models. Again, a perfect scenario
for school systems that want to perform POD (print-on-demand) or larger,
scaled print runs for a whole district, state, etc.
With licensing issues being ironed out, and the release of this software, we
should be on our way to a successful pilot in US History (assuming that
topic remains a consensus choice), with other curriculum topics soon to
follow.
Sanford
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Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] Re: history texts
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