[FM Discuss] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:23 PM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> afaik the <pre> font is a fixed width font
>
> adam

But do you know why all the <pre> sections were converted to images?

-walter

> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 13:09 -0400, Walter Bender 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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