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

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:23, 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?

I need to test some epubs in the Sugar activity read. There appear to be issues.

> 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)...

Did either of you report the bug to xinha?

> 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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