The material provided here seeks to take a Software Carpentry (SWC)
Lesson approach to describing the process by which the standard SWC
lesson style may be altered so as to allow for a Lesson’s rendered
HTML to not only be viewed using a webserver, but also when just
using basic file:/// URIs, which we term an “offline rendering”.
As this lesson is unlikely to be given within an official SWC event, it also seeks to provide a template that allows for non-SWC branding (or perhaps SWC de-branding ?) to be applied, whilst maintaining the look and feel that people familiar with studying content from official SWC lessons will have become used to, as well as making it easier for content from within non-SWC lessons to be re-used withn official SWC material.
Please see https://pawsey-kbuckley.github.io/offline-capable-lesson/ for a rendered version of this material, which is, effectively, a proof of concept, or rather, a proof of that part of the concept.
Note also that this is merely a more up-to-date, with respect to the underlying Carpentries lesson-template than a previous rendering of the same modifications, vis: https://vuw-ecs-kevin.github.io/offline-capable-lesson/