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

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:24, Adam Monsen <haircut at gmail.com> wrote:
> (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!

A pleasure. I should be able to bring the Glossary up to date in a few
days. We have moved into our new house in Columbus, Indiana, but we
are still unpacking.

>> 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.
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Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
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