[FM Discuss] starting a manual ...

[adam]

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 18:34 +0100, helen varley jamieson wrote:
> hi,
> i am finally gearing up to create 2 UpStage manuals (a users' manual & 
> an installation guide). i registered on FM, signed in no problem & have 
> created the first manual (empty shell) but before i get started on the 
> work i have a couple of general questions.

cool!

> 
> does a manual have to be part of a "group" to appear in the list of all 
> manuals?

yes


>  if so, i think i'm going to have to create a new group because 
> UpStage doesn't fit into any of the existing groups. something like 
> "online art & performance" maybe, to encompass things other than UpStage 
> that will undoubtedly come along? any other ideas? (if you don't know 
> what UpStage is, please go to http://www.upstage.org.nz)

how about 'Performance' as a group? trying to keep them simple...

> 
> when i registered on the FM site a couple of days ago, i found & browsed 
> the booki user guide; but today i could not find the booki user guide 
> anywhere ... i searched the FM site to no avail. there is not even a 
> link to a booki manual on the list of all manuals ... eventually i got 
> the idea to go to the booki site, & found the user guide. it would be 
> helpful if this could be clearly linked to from the FM editing interface.

yep. will fix. thanks

> 
> on the booki site, i found a list of groups that is different to the 
> list of FM groups, 

yes, they are different sites. Booki is the software, it is installed at
booki.cc for general use and at booki.flossmanuals.net for fm

> & i guess this is because FM is specifically for 
> FLOSS whereas books on booki can be about anything. but, if i make a 
> manual on FM can it then be imported into &/or linked to from the booki 
> site, & vice versa? (apologies if these questions have already been 
> addressed & i've missed the discussion.)


yep, shortly :)


adam

> 
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> h : )
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