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

Thu Jun 9 08:12:56 PDT 2011

I hope this all gets documented somewhere.

James Simmons

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:01 AM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> 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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>>>>> Adam Hyde
>>>>> Founder, FLOSS Manuals
>>>>> Project Manager, Booki
>>>>> Book Sprint Facilitator
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