[FM Discuss] feedback on the fm (booki) workflow

[James Simmons]

Adam,

The user would create his own cover image, 600x800 pixels.  He would
upload the cover image to the book, but would not link to it from any
page in the book.  However, the Attachments tab, which currently has
checkboxes next to each image, might have radio buttons for each image
going down the right hand side.  This would enable the user to
designate one and only one of these images as the book cover.

The Table of Contents would be generated automatically, as it is now
when you create a PDF, but the TOC for an EPUB would have no page
numbers and it would be linked to the chapters.

One thing I forgot to mention: There would need to be some way to
update the meta tags for the EPUB to indicate author, translators,
artists, etc.  This information should be shown on the PDF title page
as well.  People need to be able to take credit for their work.  The
team translating MYOSA into Spanish asked my permission to put some
kind of note on each chapter to indicate who did the translation.  I
told them to go ahead and do it.

When MYOSA was in TWiki there was an auto-generated chapter listing
who did what.  When it got migrated to Booki the original template was
converted into the static contents of the chapter.  The new book I'm
writing with my home Booki doesn't have an auto-generated Credits
chapter either.  What happened to that?

James Simmons


On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:23 AM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> hey James. Good feedback. Can you tell me - lets say everything you needed
> to do to get a complaint Kindle epub was in Booki. What would that look
> like? What would you want and where in the interface would it exist?
>
> As for the buffer - are you sure this a db connect problem? I ask this
> because I ahve had some issues with xinha (the editor we use) having content
> but not showing it. In these cases I force the browser into fullscreen mode
> and back again (f11 i think) and the content magically reappears in the
> editor (without needing to reload it)...
>
>
>
> adam
>
> On 06/09/2011 04:17 PM, James Simmons wrote:
>>
>> Adam,
>>
>> I have been using my own Booki for a few months now.  I've been
>> writing a book with it, and I also documented what I had to go through
>> to get it set up in my FLOSS Manual "E-Book Enlightenment".
>>
>> A few months ago on the Booki Blog there was a post suggesting that
>> Booki was going to be much easier to install.  I haven't heard
>> anything about that since, and I'm definitely interested.
>>
>> You already know about my suggestions on making Kindle-Store ready
>> MOBI files by making improvements to the EPUBs that are currently
>> generated.  While we're at it you could find out the requirements for
>> EPUBs on the Nook.  I would assume that like the Kindle they would
>> want a cover image and a linked TOC.
>>
>> I've been using Sigil to prepare a public domain book for the Kindle
>> Store.  One thing that Sigil does really nicely is make it easy to
>> split content into chapters.  That would be a good feature for Booki
>> to have, especially if you're correcting EPUBs automatically generated
>> by the Internet Archive.
>>
>> On my local Booki I've had intermittent problems where you try and
>> edit a page and the edit buffer comes up empty.  You can resolve this
>> by clicking on the Cancel button, refreshing the contents page, and
>> selecting the chapter again.  The problem is that there is no
>> indication that you should do this.  The software should show a
>> message box when there is a problem connecting to the database, rather
>> than just failing silently as it does now.
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:30 AM, adam<adam at flossmanuals.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> So. Aspiration are doing a review in the Booki workflow. One of the main
>>> implementations for booki is http://booki.flossmanuals.net. But it is
>>> also
>>> used for the Fi FLOSS Manuals and the
>>> http://translate-new.flossmanuals.net
>>> (new beta translation zone).
>>>
>>> As part of this we need feedback from the 'power users'. That is *you*.
>>> The
>>> FM community is the most experienced Booki group in the world!
>>>
>>> So, can we have a discussion about what you think is and isnt good about
>>> the
>>> current Booki as you experience it on booki.flossmanuals.net
>>>
>>> I am *particularly* keen to hear from those that have set up their own
>>> Booki
>>> - Ed and James but I think there are also others. However *all* feedback
>>> is
>>> useful. The feedback could be in the form of 'i dont understand how
>>> to...'
>>> or 'the edit interface is good because...' or more comprehensive
>>> interpretations of the software.
>>>
>>> Any and all feedback and discussion points are very welcome...
>>>
>>> anyone want to kick in with some starters?
>>>
>>> adam
>>>
>>>
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>>> Project Manager, Booki
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