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

Thu Jun 9 08:01:49 PDT 2011

we are working on the credits right now. there is a mechanism. you use 
the syntax:
##AUTHOR##

but we are working on better tuning of this...

adam

On 06/09/2011 04:53 PM, James Simmons wrote:
> 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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