[ANN] CSS for XML People, 3-day training course, Europe, September2019

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>]

Third or fourth week in Septmber; see below for dates & venue.


Do you work with complex documents, long documents, or with lots of
consistent smaller documents? These might be aircraft manuals,
encyclopedias and other major reference works, research papers or trade
fiction novels, mediated publishing... This CSS course is for you.

You'll learn techniques for formatting, for writting (and debugging)
CSS, for how CSS can fit in with XML tools, and about principles
behingdgraphic design and typography as well as behind CSS. You'll be
confident in making your own designs and you'll know resources for
finding out more.

There are lots of courses on CSS, but not many that are designed
specifically for people working with XML documents and tools.

Topics include
* Introduction to typographcal atyle and graphic design
* Working with CSS in the Browser
* CSS Selectors
* Grid and Flexbox
* Accessibility (including presentation order)
* effects - box shadows, border images, CSS shapes etc
* SVG and CSS
* CSS transforms, animations, transitions
* Web Fonts
* Paged media and making pages
* Generating CSS with XSLT and XQuery
* CSS fallback and polyfills
* Learning more: what's implemented and how to find out more
* Advanced: Custom properties
* CSS for print
* Meet the Tools: formatters for print
* Choosing between CSS and XSL-FO

Note: At Markup UK, i used some of my notes for this course to give a
CSS for Print session at rather short notice; i don't think it was
recorded, but several people asked about the full course. Here it is.

Venue and Dates
===============

Not yet final; will depend on how may people respond. So if you might
be interested but are not sure, contact me sooner rather than later,
and let me know where and when would be your first choice.

I have likely venues in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, UK; if any
of these definitely don't work for you, also let me know.

More at https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/

Liam


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Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/
Upcoming courses:
    CSS for XML People
        Rockville MD, USA, August; Europe, September