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style guide and production manual

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Getting started guides https://guides.github.com/

Covers and Scribus

Download Scribus 1.4.6 https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-4-6-released/

Install fonts. Once you have dowloaded the repository you will find these fonts locally https://github.com/mrchristian/hazards/tree/master/fonts

Note: cover items are in layers, so you need to be on the right layer to edit

Book Block .docx to .html

Install pandoc software http://pandoc.org/

Clean word processing file using Pepito Cleaner 0.1.16 plugin in LibreOffice http://pepitoweb.altervista.org/pepito_cleaner/index.php

FIRST: CHECK TRACK CHANGES HAS BEEN TURNED OFF AND ALL ACCEPTED!!!!

Remove all erroneous items, also make use of the navigator function to find items;

  • double spaces
  • empty paras
  • spaces at end of lines
  • check style use
  • spell check
  • make sure doc in correct language
  • place all links
  • use styles on headers and block quotes
  • remove unused links and bookmarks using Navigator
  • remove and replace styles using Pepito
  • Make sure block quotes and footnotes have correct styles
  • Look out for formatting errors in footnotes

Include all URLs and e-mail links

Remove all underlines and colour formatting on links, this prevents underline being read as italic by pandoc

Then run pandoc script in your docs directory: pandoc -s filename.docx -o filename.html

The everything inside, but not including the body tags, can be copy pasted into your main XHTML layout doc

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