[FM Discuss] Comment Press Experiment with FM

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:03, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will comment on the chapter 10 Things You Can Do Now as soon as I
> send you these comments on the software.

Done. What do you think? Will you do likewise?

> The Table of contents navigation is excellent.
>
> Within each chapter there is room for comments on the whole
> chapter/page, or on individual paragraphs. However, navigation is by
> paragraph number, and the paragraphs are not numbered. Also, it
> appears that one cannot comment on a section heading, just on the
> paragraphs beneath it. When I click to comment on the first paragraph
> in a section, the section heading is not visible.
>
> None of this prevents using the comment function, but it makes it more
> work than it should be, and more confusing.
>
> Now, 10 things...How am I doing? Check it out.
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:46, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> Just a quick post to the FM list about a wee experiment FM labs are
>> trying out. As you know we just released 'An Open Web':
>> http://openweb.flossmanuals.net/
>>
>> Well, to try and get more www action and comments on the book I
>> implemented the comment press plugin and copied An Open Web to there.
>> You can see it at:
>> http://comment.flossmanuals.net/
>>
>> This is just an experiment at the moment. If it works well I think we
>> could feature a new manual regularly - if someone is working on
>> something we could load the manual here and ask for comments. Feature
>> the manual so to speak. There are plenty in the world that prefer to
>> comment than edit..much more so....so it could be an interesting
>> experiment.
>>
>> Both Aco and I would prefer an integrated solution - integrating Comment
>> Press into booki, but it might be that if we want this functionality we
>> have to build it into Booki. I would prefer we try and work with an
>> existing solution but its not always easy so we may end up in the end
>> building our own (sigh)...
>>
>> anyways...try it out and let us know...
>>
>>
>> adam
>> (I also cc'ed bob stein the mind behind comment press and the future of
>> the book institute on this mail)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> vote for booki in the Open Web Awards!
>>
>> Booki (the latest FM project - http://www.booki.cc - a collaborative
>> publishing platform) is in the final of the Open Web Awards.
>> Great! We are 1 of 3 projects. If we win we get 5000 which we will use
>> to do a code sprint on a tropical island somewhere ;)
>>
>> please please please register :
>> http://www.drumbeat.org/user/register
>>
>> and vote for us by visiting this page and clicking on the 'vote' link (top right):
>> http://www.drumbeat.org/project/open-web-publishing
>>
>> and pass this around!!!! :)
>>
>> Adam Hyde
>> Founder FLOSS Manuals &
>> Booki Project Manager
>>
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>>
>>
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> --
> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
> http://www.earthtreasury.org/
>



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Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
http://www.earthtreasury.org/