Hello, people.
I may have missed it on the mailing list, but I don't think anyone has commented on this book, and I don't see an announcement on the website either. Since, as far as I know, this is the first Inkscape book to be published, I'd say that it should deserve a bit of publicity.
So, the data: "Inkscape Starter Kit", by Emilia de Castro Guerra, published by Pearsons Education France, some 250 pages, plus CD-ROM. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.fr/Inkscape-Apprenez-pratiquez-cr%C3%A9ez-1C%C3%A9d%C3%A9r...
I've found the book quite nice for beginners. It would be useful for people wanting to give courses on Inkscape, so that the students have some guide to follow. There are also some tricks and in-depth exploration of functionalities that can be helpful to more advanced users, if only to formalize all that things that we learned by trial-and-error and instinct.
Unfortunately, the book is in French (techie and simply written, I suppose, because I don't know the language but I was able to understand most of it). It'd be interesting if they translated it into english or other languages.
Denís.
On Monday 25 June 2007 07:18, Denis Fernandez Cabrera wrote:
Hello, people.
I may have missed it on the mailing list, but I don't think anyone has commented on this book, and I don't see an announcement on the website either. Since, as far as I know, this is the first Inkscape book to be published, I'd say that it should deserve a bit of publicity.
The book by Tavmong Bah is available as an e-book from Lulu. The book by de Castro Guerra is apparently only available in the French language. I battled that language for several years at the University of San Francisco, and I lost. And that was a half century ago.
John R. Culleton wrote:
I may have missed it on the mailing list, but I don't think anyone has commented on this book, and I don't see an announcement on the website either. Since, as far as I know, this is the first Inkscape book to be published, I'd say that it should deserve a bit of publicity.
The book by Tavmong Bah is available as an e-book from Lulu. The book by de Castro Guerra is apparently only available in the French language. I battled that language for several years at the University of San Francisco, and I lost. And that was a half century ago.
I agree... partially. Inkscape has a lot of potential users where I live, but not many of them speak english. I am sure that the case will be similar in France, so a book in french fills a void that that e-book did not cover.
Now, although I have never been taught french, I was able to read most of the book. But then, I have the advantage of already speaking several romance languages. Because I am sure that not many people outside France (my friends don't speak French either) will be interested in a book written in french, I wish it were translated.
But the language of the book isn't my point. The stress I think that should be put on the publishing of this book is that it is a physical book (we all know that e-books just don't are viewed under the same light by the main public), and produced by a major publisher. It also targets a generous amount of people --- Free Software is strong in France, and France has a reasonably large population.
In other words -- the interest in having it known that this book has been published lies not so much on the book itself (which is good) but on the fact that it is another sign of prestige for Inkscape, that the program is good enough that there is a certain demand for books on the matter.
Even shorter: it's Inkscape publicity.
Denís.
Referring to: http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
Well, from a population point of view, we'd rather start writing some printed documentation in Chinese, first. But French is -after English- indeed the most spoken "second language".
Maarten
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Maarten van der Velde wrote:
Referring to: http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
Well, from a population point of view, we'd rather start writing some printed documentation in Chinese, first. But French is -after English- indeed the most spoken "second language".
I am not going to enter the eternal discussion about in which language is more worthwhile writting/speaking on. It's a sterile debate.
I still think that the publishing of this book is an important fact in Inkscape's maduration, which is the point in case, and I thought you might want to know about it, hence my post to the list.
Denís.
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 07:28, Denis Fernandez Cabrera wrote:
Maarten van der Velde wrote:
Referring to: http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
Well, from a population point of view, we'd rather start writing some printed documentation in Chinese, first. But French is -after English- indeed the most spoken "second language".
I am not going to enter the eternal discussion about in which language is more worthwhile writting/speaking on. It's a sterile debate.
I still think that the publishing of this book is an important fact in Inkscape's maduration, which is the point in case, and I thought you might want to know about it, hence my post to the list.
Denís.
I did not mean to disrespect the product or the importance of the occasion. I wait with anticipation either a translation of this book to English or else another written in English. At the moment I am effectively a monoglot.
Dear people,
Excuses, I did not intend to start a discussion or to critisize anybody or any language. I realy ment it quite "matter-of-factly".
One of the greatest merits of open source is, -I feel-, the localisation that usualy comes from it, -and so does Inkscape.
I think it realy is a matter of time before an Inskape Bibble (or I Tjing ^^) appears somewhere in print and then gets translated into "Chinese, French and Dutch" (to quote Bowie).
But, this whole discussion is a bit of-topic. Let's g o drawing freely again. :)
Maarten
-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of John R. Culleton Sent: 26. juni 2007 14:03 To: Inkscape User Community Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Book on Inkscape
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 07:28, Denis Fernandez Cabrera wrote:
Maarten van der Velde wrote:
Referring to: http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
Well, from a population point of view, we'd rather start writing some printed documentation in Chinese, first. But French is -after English- indeed the most spoken "second language".
I am not going to enter the eternal discussion about in which language is more worthwhile writting/speaking on. It's a sterile debate.
I still think that the publishing of this book is an important fact in Inkscape's maduration, which is the point in case, and I thought you might want to know about it, hence my post to the list.
Denís.
I did not mean to disrespect the product or the importance of the occasion. I wait with anticipation either a translation of this book to English or else another written in English. At the moment I am effectively a monoglot.
-- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
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Hello again,
Sorry if I took a while to write -- I am through a busy week right now.
To join the chorus of apologies, I probably over-reacted too on the language issue... So let's leave it be at that. :o)
And yes, be this book a first step towards it or not, I do think that Inkscape will begin to show its potential as a good didactical tool. I am sure that more than one book will begin to appear on it.
Happy Drawing! Denís.
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