[FM Discuss] Strange problems with PDF of Spanish version of MYOSA

Sat Jun 18 19:08:34 PDT 2011

I ve read Gonzalo's mail, just came... too tired to look at it now.

Too much copy paste.
Next time we will check html syntax previously...

somebody should implement a brush function.
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:20 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ana,
>
> I've looked at the book some more.  Some comments:
>
> 1).  Every image used in the book needs to be uploaded to that same
> book.  You can't link to images outside the book.  It will *look* OK
> when you're editing, but the book will not publish correctly, either
> to the web or to PDF or EPUB.  I think the chapters you worked on did
> this OK but some of your collaborators didn't realize this.
>
> 2).  There is extra style information in the pages probably caused by
> editing in Word.  Some of this is harmless, but the only way you're
> going to know is by creating a PDF with the default styles and looking
> at each page.  Some of the style stuff is definitely harmful!
>
> 3).  There are no bios for you and your team in the "About The
> Authors" chapter.  People want to know who you are!  Don't feel you
> need to make your bio as silly as mine is, but put something there.
>
> ok

> 4).  When I post this to the Internet Archive and the Kindle Store I'm
> going to want to have a Spanish description for the book.  Could you
> please provide one?

I will

> Feel free to come up with your own description,
> or if you don't want to do that translate what I'm using here:
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Sugar-Activities-ebook/dp/B0050VAHKW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1305432542&sr=1-1
>
> I have fixed up some problems with the book and may continue to do
> that as time permits, but since I don't know Spanish I can't be
> trusted to do all the fix-ups.  The key thing is to put the editor in
> HTML mode for each chapter and look for stuff that doesn't belong.
>
Thanks,
>
Hope to do this between now and tomorrrow!

I was here today  http://conozcoejemplo.wordpress.com  people finds it too
hard but they follow it, I think it is the 3rd time I try to teach this.
Pupils are mostly teachers, primary and secondary, some (10) knew not the
ConozcoUruguay.xo, none (-1)  had ever opened Terminal before.   My task is
to take out fear, one of them told later she couldn t face writing on the
console that she felt unsecure. I try to push them reminding them their
request of good spelling to their pupils. We teachers are hard to sit down
in class,

Buen fin de semana:) Raining at home

James Simmons
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:49 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Ana,
> >
> > I figured out some of the issues and attempted to make corrections.
> > It looks like some of the chapters had extra tags in them.  For
> > instance, chapter 4 had an extra <h1></h1> in front of the chapter
> > title, so the chapter title came up as an empty string.  Other
> > chapters had unnecessary <style> tags in them.  I would guess that
> > these chapters might have been edited in Word and then pasted into
> > Booki.  I've done that myself and it has caused similar problems.
> >
> > For the missing screenshots, I would guess that the URLs of the
> > screenshots do not point to images contained within the project, but
> > in fact point to images in the English version.  This *looks* OK when
> > you're editing but does not work for publishing.
> >
> > I would recommend creating a PDF with the default style sheet and
> > going through it looking for obvious problems like screwed up chapter
> > headings, missing pictures, etc.  Look at the raw HTML view for
> > chapters with problems and that should give you a pretty good idea of
> > how to fix them.  It should not take that long, and I'll help if you
> > get stuck.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > James Simmons
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> The Spanish version of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" is ready to
> >> publish, but when I attempt to make a PDF to submit to the Internet
> >> Archive I'm getting a weird problem with the TOC.  It looks like this:
> >>
> >> Table of Contents
> >> Actividades Sugar
> >>  1 Introducción
> >>             2
> >>  2 ¿Qué es Sugar?
> >>             4
> >>  3 ¿Qué es una Actividad Sugar?
> >>             7
> >>  4
> >>             8
> >> Programación
> >>  5 Instalar el entorno de desarrollo.
> >>  6 Crear tu primer Actividad Sugar
> >>  7 Un programa Python autónomo para leer etexts
> >>  8 Heredar una Actividad desde sugar.activity.Activity
> >>  9 Empaquetar tu Actividad
> >>  10 Agregar detalles
> >>    h1 { margin-top: 0.78cm; margin-bottom: 0.11cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
> >>    background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; line-height: 100%;
> text-
> >>    align: left; orphans: 2; page-break-after: auto; }h1.western {
> font-family:
> >>  11
> >>    "Liberation Sans"; font-size: 17pt; }h1.cjk { font-family: "DejaVu
> >> Sans"; font-
> >>    size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; }h1.ctl { font-family: "DejaVu
> Sans"; font-
> >>    size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; }p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
> >>  12 Internacionalizarse con Pootle
> >>  13 Distribuir tu Actividad
> >>
> >> Notice that chapter 4 has no title at all, and chapters 10 and 11 seem
> >> to be displaying style information where the chapter titles should be.
> >>  I thought this might be an issue with the custom style sheet I was
> >> using, but it does the exact same thing with the default style sheet.
> >>
> >> Here is a link to the generated PDF using the default style sheet:
> >>
> >>
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/comohacerunaactividadsugar-en-2011.06.17-22.23.48.pdf
> >>
> >> This is the link to edit and publish the manual:
> >>
> >> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/como-hacer-una-actividad-sugar/edit/
> >>
> >> It looks like there are several problems with the PDF.  The section
> >> contents for ACTIVIDADES SUGAR has no chapters listed in it.  Same
> >> thing for PROGRAMACIÓN.  On page 22 a heading is overlaid on top of
> >> the following paragraph.  Similar problem on page 30.  None of the
> >> chapters in the body of the document have numbers.  Page 77 is missing
> >> a screenshot.  Same for page 87 and 91 and 96.  (Maybe the links to
> >> pictures point to the wrong place.  That might be a problem with the
> >> translators using Booki incorrectly).
> >>
> >> I hope we can straighten this out quickly.  Ana and her team have done
> >> what looks to be a terrific job.  They even put in footnotes
> >> explaining my lousy jokes.  You can't ask for that kind of dedication.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> James Simmons
> >>
> >
>
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