Classical Chinese syllabus posted; using Landslide for markdown-to-HTML5

& (verbiage overflow)Wed 18 January 2012RSS

In my teaching this year, I'm going to avoid course management software like Courseworks and Blackboard entirely, and build my own little password-protected site, for the practice.

I've posted the syllabus publicly as HTML5 (20150809: now deleted), the first time I've attempted to use that format. I constructed it using the wonderful Markdown language, which I converted to HTML5 using Landslide. Landslide is very convenient and (in v. 1.0.1) was easy to install and operate. I also tried using Pandoc (v. 1.5.1.1, via apt-get on Ubuntu 10.04; newer versions have unworkable dependencies) with the -w slidy option, but Landslide looks much better, at least with the default options.

Two small matters in Landslide v. 1.0.1, which I've reported as issues:

Thanks to Norm Kabir and WES Skeith for the inspiration of their own markdown-based course materials.

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