Jim Hall

5850 points

Minnesota

Jim Hall is an open source software advocate and developer, best known for usability testing in GNOME and as the founder + project coordinator of FreeDOS. At work, Jim is CEO of Hallmentum, an IT executive consulting company that provides hands-on IT Leadership training, workshops, and coaching.

Open Sourcerer People's Choice Award People's Choice Award 2018 Author Linux Contributor Club

Authored Content

A look inside an EPUB file

EPUB files are a great way to publish content using an open format.

Person drinking a hat drink at the computer

How ODT files are structured

Because OpenDocument Format (ODF) are based on open standards, you can use other tools to examine them and even extract data from them. You just need to know where to start.

Level up your HTML document with CSS

Use CSS to bring style to your HTML project documentation.

Writing project documentation in HTML

HyperText has more features than plain text to level up your documentation.

Digital creative of a browser on the internet

A gentle introduction to HTML

Learn the markup language of the web.

Create beautiful PDFs in LaTeX

Use the LaTeX markup language to compose documents.

Authored Comments

Jim Hall

13 Aug 2022

Writing project documentation in HTML

Good example of a standalone tag, also called a self-closing tag. FYI, self-closing tags put the slash at the end, like this: ‹br/›

Although with HTML 5, you no longer need the slash in self closing tags. For example ‹img› is another standalone tag, but in HTML 5 you don't need the trailing slash.

Jim Hall

7 Jul 2022

Use secret keyboard keys on Linux

I had no idea you could do this! I've activated Compose mode in GNOME, and now I can type accented characters easily. Thanks!