[FM Discuss] using Flossmanuals (was: request to start new manual for Mifos)

[Adam Monsen]

(Cc the Mifos book team leads: Anita and Mike. Guys, please chime in
if there's something I'm omitting or if you're facing a new blocking
issue)

Anne, Edward, thank you for your help so far!

> all development efforts are going into Booki development, a new
> collaborative authoring tool.

Interesting!

One thing I wasn't able to glean from http://en.flossmanuals.net/booki
is: why write a new tool? Booki sounds like a rewrite of Flossmanuals.

Is Flossmanuals still maintained? Is it going to be, moving forward?
Or is there some migration path to Booki? (ah, here's one answer, at
least: I found http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/ticket/60 - "add fm
import")

> Cross-references used wisely can be a great enhancement to a publication.

I filed an enhancement:
http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/ticket/127 - "provide
cross-referencing so authors can refer to other parts of a document in
a way that can be sensibly rendered on displays and in print"

> I can't do that but Adam Hyde or Cara Bell-Jones can, I believe. Sit tight
> for another few days for Adam to return from vacation.
>
> And, I went ahead and clicked Publish now. Here's the Introduction:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/Mifos/Welcome.

Thank you!

It's not hard for us to mail the list and request this (and I'd
imagine it would be an infrequent request) so, whatever works best
with publishing is fine.

> I highly value indexes and would love to see the capability built into Booki.

You may already know about
http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/ticket/95 - "end-of-book indexing"

> Adam can do bulk uploads of graphics and the like... but it requires server
> access as you might imagine and I don't think he can give that, but
> typically you could email him a zip file with your files for upload and he
> can do it.

Ok, no sweat, thank you. I think Anita (Cc'd) mentioned this wasn't a
blocker for her at the moment, only that it was slower to upload them
one by one.