[FM Discuss] documenting Booktype

[adam]

cool, will check the comments :)

On 04/30/2012 12:42 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
>> please refer to the comments I made to the ticket you made in
>> the Booktype issue tracker.
>>
>> http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/BK-120
>
> Thanks, I've added a comment:
>
> "The 'read' material need not be live if it is versioned, like the draft
> interface. The simplest implementation would be to remove the 'draft'
> background graphic from this view:
>
> http://booktype-demo.sourcefabric.org/algebra-an-algorithmic-treatment/_draft/_v/1.0/chapter-1-the-language-of-mathematics/
>
> So when the book is versioned, the author(s) would have the choice to
> point the 'read' link at the current live version, or the previous
> versioned draft. This is a neat solution because only the book owner can
> create new drafts."
>
> Personally, I cannot use the current 'draft' view for anything, because
> the background graphic makes proof-reading very difficult. That 'draft'
> view is well integrated with the edit interface though, with an edit
> link on every chapter.
>
>>> Right, but FM does not have that feature at the moment. Each time I use
>>> bookipublisher, I'm forking a static version which does not get updated
>>> until I fork again.
>>
>> it is not a fork, it is a copy of a specific moment.
>
> Any changes to the exported HTML version are not returned to the
> Booktype version. Therefore it's a fork, in my 'book' :-)
>
> The weakness of a star topology (Booktype at the centre feeds updates to
> peripheral HTML sites) is that should anything happen to the original
> Booktype server, the maintainers of the static HTML sites have lost the
> ability to continue producing the books, other than going back to
> conventional editing. It's a producer/consumer model, rather than the
> distributed many-producer model I was suggesting.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel

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