Ten Stupid Things Beginners Do to Mess Up Their Contradance Experience/Pamphlet Version
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Converting this text into a pamphlet is a little trickier than it might seem. Normally, when creating a pamphlet, you can adjust the text, adding or deleting material to make it fit the available space. This document is, of course, licensed to allow for that, but I wanted to see if it could be done relatively simply without an absolute minimum of of changes from the wiki version.
I've gotten it to fit reasonably into two pamphlets, both in a landscape presentation on legal sized paper, divided into four colunns for double-folding (in half, and then half again). One will be a full sheet, carrying the title, the preface, Stupid Things 1 through 8, and a wiki statement. The other will be a half sheet, carrying the title, the preface, Stupid Things 9 through 11, and a wiki statement. I'm using the word processor in OpenOffice.org[1] (which is available for most computing platforms for free), with the Bitstream Vera Sans typeface, .5" margins on the page, .5" spacing between the columns, I did all the headers in bold, with the pamphlet title in 16 point font, the section titles in 12 point font, the subtitles in 10 point font, and the main text body in 9 point font.
The wiki statement should be as follows:
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. This pamphlet is an adaptation of the Wikibook of the same name which can be found at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ten_Stupid_Things_Beginners_Do_to_Mess_Up_Their_Contradance_Experience , and the terms under which it can be copied can be found at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Copyrights . |
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The version I put together can be downloaded from this link. It might be simpler to work with this PDF version of the same document.
--Blain 00:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
