[xml-dev] [ANN] CSS for XML People, 3-day training course,Amsterdam, 1st

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

I now have dates & location for this 3-day course - it will be in
Amsterdam, the first three days of October.


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


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

Liam


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Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/
Upcoming course: CSS for XML People
    Rockville MD, USA, August 2019
    Amsterdam, NL, October 2019