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

adam adam at flossmanuals.net
Fri Jun 10 03:00:20 PDT 2011 

james - tuukkah is trying a few thing sot fix that loading bug...can you 
try this:

<tuukkah> the line in code before the call to xinha_init is this: 
$("#editor").css("display", "block").fadeIn("slow");

<tuukkah> maybe combine those two lines as:
$("#editor").css("display", "block").fadeIn("slow", function() { 
xinha_init(); });


in:

lib/booki/site_static/js/editor.js


and let us know if u see it happen again...it might take some trying....

adam






On 06/09/2011 05:12 PM, James Simmons wrote:
> 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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