Typography Playground
This chapter shows some of the formatting we can do with Pressbooks. We use this chapter for testing how different Pressbooks themes affect typography, special types of content, media elements, and more. While this chapter is more for internal use, you may find a few smiles.
Language Shifts
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Or, as they say in Latin, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
If you have a sentence or word in another language, we add language tags so screen readers will pronounce the words correctly, making your book accessible to more people.
Looks Like a Book
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This is an H2 Heading.
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Sometimes a project presents unique challenges. Lacrimare fortasse possumus, sed difficilia agere possumus. We are ready.
The colored boxes below are standard with every Pressbooks theme. The colors can be changed. In fact, we’ve customized the first two to match the College’s web colors (tertiary colors). These can be displayed full width, as you see below, or as sidebars. The boxes are responsive, so they will shift as needed to accommodate the device your reader is using. A sidebar, for instance, will shift down on a phone so the main content is uninterrupted.
Learning Objectives
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Key Takeaways
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Exercises
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Try interactive H5P activities in the Media and Interactive Elements chapter.
Examples
Webbooks can include media elements such as audio or video, or even interactive H5P activities.
Example 1.
Let’s say you want to explain the vocalizations of a llama (I mean, why wouldn’t you?). Simply embed an audio or video file and students can hear the sounds for themselves.
Example 2.
Try it yourself! Record yourself making a llama noise (you may need to give this webpage permission to use your microphone). Then compare to the real one above. How did you do? This is a sample of just one of the many H5P activities we can include in your OA resource.*
*Does not have to include llamas—even though that would be nice.
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This is a standard textbox.
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More Headings (H1)
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Cras ac dolor sed quam viverra egestas ut quis erat. (H3)
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Would you like to see a block quote?
Anne Lamott, in her classic book, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, says:
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do—the actual act of writing—turns out to be the best part. It’s like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.
Tea is wonderful; but sometimes you need columns.
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- My guess is that you will need footnotes. One book we published, The College of William & Mary: A History, Vol. 1 : 1693–1888, had a single chapter with over 280 of them. ↵
- I will not use so many here. ↵
- These notes can be displayed as either footnotes (print only) or endnotes at the end of the chapter. ↵
- Ibid. ↵
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