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Re: [CC-India] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools
- From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind AT gmail.com>
- To: Pranesh Prakash <pranesh AT cis-india.org>
- Cc: Fosscom Network <network AT fosscom.in>, cc-india AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [CC-India] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:32:50 +0530
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh AT cis-india.org> wrote:
Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind AT gmail.com> [2013-11-18 16:03:00 +0530]:
> About SCERT & Kerala Text books, There official order will take few moreThis sounds *excellent*. Kudos on your fantastic efforts.
> days . please wait for that
> BTW Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is working closely with SCERT for
> bringing out HTML, EPUB and PDF versions of all text books .
>
> We are helping SCERT to build a Mediawiki based textbook preparation system
> for collaborative content preparation by text book commitees and FOSS
> based XeTeX setup for book authoring and PDF/EPUB/HTML generation. So
> without any technical issues you can start using official Epub versions
> once it is released.
Just an Update . This is not happened yet . Official Order is still pending
There was an effort to change the decision of curriculum committee by an expert commitee ( a body which does not have powers to take policy decisions) and this year text books went for publishing without CC license/ XeteX typesetting
But the curriculum committee meeting happened in January again decided same points again and decide to impliment on all text books from next year .
So we need to wait for an official order fom government .
You might also want to check out Pandoc[1] and Markdown as part of the workflow, and see whether it would fit/make things easier. While it is not a TeX editor, Pandoc allow people to write in Pandoc-extended Markdown (and LaTeX), which is considerably easier that authoring raw LaTeX, and have it converted and rendered by a LaTeX engine of your choosing, including XeLaTeX. It can also handle HTML/ePub generation.
The issue here is indian Language support . XeTeX is the only TeX engine with indian language support . Thanks for the pointer . we will explore Pandoc
[1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html
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Re: [CC-India] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools,
Pranesh Prakash, 01/27/2014
- Re: [CC-India] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools, Anivar Aravind, 01/27/2014
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