[FM Discuss] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84

[Walter Bender]

What's more, not being able to copy/paste code snippets from the PDF
(or wiki) is a serious regression.

-walter

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at the Modify Sugar chapter. Do we really need to use a
> variable-width font for code snippets? If so, this is a serious bug.
> It makes it much more difficult to make the connection between the
> actual experience using the command line and what you see in the
> manual.  How did the Command Line manual cope with this?
>
> -walter
>
> 2009/3/26 Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com>:
>> Hi all -
>> I am thinking the Sugar Guide is ready for one last look before I publish to
>> PDF and HTML.
>>
>> It's still on the WRITE side of FLOSS Manuals, so feel free to do any
>> last-minute proofing and edits here:
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/WebHome
>>
>> We had some technical hurdles to overcome since it's our first version
>> update on a manual (way to lead the way Sugar!). But I think enough bugs are
>> worked out to allow publishing tomorrow (Friday 3/27).
>>
>> Final items:
>>
>> Walter or someone with python knowledge, could you review the "Modifying
>> Sugar" chapter at
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/ModifyingSugar? I had to take
>> all the code examples (python and svg xml) and put them into images so that
>> the PDF generation will work.
>> There's a problem with misnumbered chapters for which I've logged a trac
>> issue and Aco has taken: http://adam.engagetv.com/trac/ticket/81.
>> Walter, David, and Adam - let's talk about getting an ISBN for this book if
>> we want to sell it on Amazon. If we do decide to sell it on Amazon, we'll
>> need a new book cover to match Crown Quarto dimensions. (The dimensions are
>> 190mm x 250mm and the page count is 226.)
>>
>> Thanks, all, for your assistance and patience.
>>
>> Anne
>>
>> --
>> Anne Gentle
>> email: annegentle at justwriteclick.com
>> blog: www.justwriteclick.com
>>
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> Walter Bender
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