Fidus Writer Publication Styling

Information on how to do document styling in Fidus Writer

Resources

• Fidus Writer - https://www.fiduswriter.org/2019/05/07/fidus-writer-3-6-released-with-document-templates/
• Start with CSS styling, then look at Templates?
• Make a style that looks like the Open Science Handbook https://github.com/Open-Science-Training-Handbook/Open-Science-Training-Handbook_EN see GitBook output here https://book.fosteropenscience.eu/en/ (this is where we want to copy CSS from)
• Readup on Fidus Writer styling guides
• Do the tests here https://f1-test.consortium.io/
• Document the process in the Wiki
• Learn about paginated CSS https://vivliostyle.org/ https://drafts.csswg.org/css-page-3/ https://vivliostyle.org/docs/
• Pages media CSS https://www.print-css.rocks/

Objectives

Only do this on the test site, NOT the live. https://f1-test.consortium.io/

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stage 1: basic styling functions

1. Make a copy of the general styling of the Open-Science-Training-Handbook
2. Document the styling, for example: what are the values of H1, H2, body, quote
3. Make a manual of how to style: a step by step guide
4. Styling goes to as many output formats as possible: list
5. After completing go to stage 2 and 3

Stage 2: PoC publishing package

1. How to manually package outputs to a web server, or GitHub/GitLab pages using Vivliotyle HTML render, with Jekyll or Hugo type outputs. E.g., see Vivliostyle paged output https://vivliostyle.github.io/vivliostyle.js/viewer/vivliostyle-viewer.html#x=../samples/variable-page-size/TheMalayArchipelago/main.xhtml

Stage 3: make a Fidus Writer manual

1. We'll author and package a manual for installing and using Fidus Writer

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Notes

Styles from the Open Science Handbook

https://book.fosteropenscience.eu/en/

h2 font-size: 1.75em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 1.275em; margin-bottom: .85em; font-weight: 700; page-break-after: avoid; orphans: 3; widows: 3;