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[Chris Woollard <cwoollard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just for your information.

The Ubuntu-Manual Style Guide is available here,

http://files.ubuntu-manual.org/style-guide.pdf

Thanks
Chris Woollard

On 28 October 2010 19:35, Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  I actually purchased that ubuntu manual book from lulu a couple months
> ago. Nice work!
>
> We can engage the design team to ensure the design is really right and to
> help us tweak it as appropriate.
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle
>
>
> On 10/28/2010 02:28 PM, Michael Terry wrote:
>
> We stole our current stylesheet from the Ubuntu Manual project.  We talked
> during the session of using their style guide too, assuming they have one
> (they seem to be well organized).
>
> They seem to be doing the exact sort of stuff we want to do, just a
> different subject material/audience.  They even sell the book on lulu.
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual
> http://ubuntu-manual.org/
>
> -mt
>
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:04 -0400, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
>
> One issue that did not come up during the session is how to create a book (a
> pdf) that is fully consistent with and an excellent example of the new Ubuntu
> design/branding stuff: http://design.canonical.com/
>
> Specifically, I wonder whether there is:
>   * an existing book layout/design
>   * perhaps even a specific build system with all the right bits in the right
> places to convert tex (current source format) into a pdf with latex that
> implements that design.
>
> I have just talked to Ivanka Majic (http://design.canonical.com/theteam/) about
> this and there does not yet appear to be anything in place here (to be
> confirmed). I will pursue this further. It is thus possible that this book can
> be THE first example of an Ubuntu book with the new design and can therefore be
> used as a prototype and template for any other such projects that come along.
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle
>
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