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Title: Children book in multiple languages: Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, ...
Post by: a.l.e on December 30, 2024, 07:37:11 PM
Today I was watching

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-let-s-spark-children-s-interest-in-coding

and, at the end of the talk, I got "forwarded" to

Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream

ada-zangemann.png

A book about kids and programming.

While looking for the book, I've discovered that it's done with Scribus, produced in multiple languages.

The result is pretty and worth to have a look:

https://archive.org/details/ada-zangemann/

I've not yet read it, but I stumbled on their git repository

https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann

and it contains all the resources to create the book:


In my eyes, this is a good starting point for people who want to use Scribus to create a book that is translated in multiple languages and automatically fill the content out of text files.

While looking at the files, I've noticed a few things:


All in all: they made good choices and they managed to create a workflow that is simple to follow and adapt.

But, I have to admit that, now, I'm tempted to write a Python script that runs inside of Scribus, make it more general to be used also for other books and fill tickets for all the feature that are missing (as an example for the drop caps, if they cannot do what is needed for this book!)
Title: Re: Children book in multiple languages: Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, ...
Post by: MrB on December 30, 2024, 09:30:25 PM
That's cool :)
Title: Re: Children book in multiple languages: Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, ...
Post by: utnik on December 31, 2024, 07:30:23 AM
yes, it's really cool. but the strange thing is, that the downloadable .pdf on 'archive.org' was generated by indesign 17.3.

utnik