[FM Discuss] Enhancements for BookType

[Edward Mokurai Cherlin]

How are we doing on language support in BookType? I have requirements
coming up in about a hundred languages in most modern writing systems.
Even Mongolian, which is not yet properly supported anywhere, so we
have to use the Cyrillic version for now. Spanish is the highest
priority.

My main feature request is the ability to embed software into
documents, so that Sugar Labs can integrate Sugar and other education
software into textbooks. It appears to me that integrating software
into a manual about that software would open up a lot of helpful
possibilities for FM as well. What options are there for running
software from a Web page (strong), or a PDF (weak, I believe), or any
other e-book format (umm...)? I realize that we can't run software in
a printed book, but I don't care very much. The essence of the
Replacing Textbooks program is that XOs and other computers with Free
Software and Creative Commons content cost less than printed
textbooks, a major consideration for our target countries.

I need an admin manual. Although our server admin Stefan can install
and configure booki or BookType, he needs me to be able to take care
of day-to-day management. Right now I want to know why I get all sorts
of display oddities while editing, including obvious errors in
generating HTML, but I get completely different oddities in the read
view (such as all paragraphs centered). I see nothing in the CSS to
account for this.

Also, I can't generate PDFs at all on booki.treehouse.su. It says

Your books [sic] is being sent to Objavi (Booki's publishing engine),
converted to book formated pdf.

Then the progress bar completes and nothing else happens.

The Django in our booki instance keeps crashing, requiring me to do a
manual restart.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Machine/booki#known_problems

I see that my bug about warning the user against closing a session
without saving changes has been fixed on booki.cc, but not pushed to
the depository, nor deployed on flossmanuals.net. I need this for
booki.treehouse.su ASAP.

http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/ticket/570

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Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
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