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

James Simmons nicestep at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 06:18:30 PDT 2011 

Adam,

Unfortunately, I am working on a real book that I hope to publish on
my copy of Booki.  I'd rather live with it as is than tinker with it
at this time.

James Simmons

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:00 AM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> 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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