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That's a fantastic initiative to offer world literature. FYI: A while ago I've started the World Classics Bookshelf - http://worldclassics.github.io http://worl
by geraldbauer 9y ago
That's a fantastic initiative to offer world literature. FYI: A while ago I've started the World Classics Bookshelf - http://worldclassics.github.io http://worldclassics.github.io The idea is to use plain text with markdown formatting conventions (for richer typography e.g. beautiful quotes, em-dashes, etc.). See The Trial by Franz Kafka as an example -> https://github.com/worldclassics/the-trial https://github.com/worldclassics/the-trial (in the Manuscripts plain text source format). The second idea is to use a (standard) static website builder (e.g. Jekyll) for building the online books (from markdown) and to offer different book / page designs (kind of like the Zen of CSS Garden e.g. the Zen of Book Designs). See https://github.com/bookdesigns https://github.com/bookdesigns for some examples incl. the "classic" GitBook style -> http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-git http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-git Anyways, keep up the great work and publishing public domain world classics. Cheers.
- fernly 9y agoYou like http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-git http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-git? I would call it nearly unreadable. Certainly those blocks of sans-serif are fatiguing to my eyes.
- geraldbauer 9y agoGood point. That's just one book design theme. Note: To change the typography e.g. the font used is just a single line in CSS ;-) Maybe you like the Rust theme better -> http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-rust http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-rust or the Epsilon theme - http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-epsilon http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-epsilon PS: And, of course ;-), the idea is to contribute your own designs! It's really just an HTML template with some CSS.
- accordionclown 9y agorather than a flock of templates with different fonts, i'd suggest some simple javascript that lets the users choose their preferred font from a generous assortment.