3 years ago I volunteered to create a new edition of Ethan Winer’s 1990s BASIC programming book using LibreOffice (@libreoffice). Over the span of a year, with Ethan’s editorial input, I rebuilt the book layout from TXT sources in #LibreOffice , and recreated all diagrams from scratch using #FreeDOS, #InkScape and #GIMP. It turned out great!
For all programming resources produced by Crescent Software (by Ethan Winer), they're being curated and shared by Gene Buckle here: http://annex.retroarchive.org/crescent/index.html
@ellabellafull We're glad to hear that LibreOffice was useful 🥰
@ellabellafull @libreoffice This is absolutely incredible!
@kn4obk @libreoffice Glad you think so! It was tons of fun.
@ellabellafull @libreoffice really cool project. I’m checking this out later, thanks!
@saleh_gnutux @libreoffice @gnutux @bassam And for digitizing paper based history in open formats to restore and protect its accessibility. It's bo longer stuck in the 1990s hehe.
I was able to provide Ethan with all open document format originals (like ODT) so everyone can access and share the body of work.
There's a scan of the old paper book available at archive.org but it's rights managed through the lending mechanism.
@ellabellafull congratulations! @libreoffice
@ellabellafull @libreoffice this is way too cool! Thank you.
@libreoffice my reference broke. Fixing.