[FM Discuss] Modifying Bookipublisher

[Edward Mokurai Cherlin]

On Fri, March 22, 2013 8:26 am, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> Yeah, I installed a test Booktype here: http://www.pilvipalvelut.eu/
>
> Should try to import the entire Finnish site just to check that it can
> be done without trouble.

I will import some books from booki.treehouse.su, the Sugar Labs test
booki server. I tried a few chapters. Can you set the Preformatted
style to use the Courier New font family? I use it for code in the J
programming language, a version of APL, and plan to do other books in
Etoys/Smalltalk, Python, and others. Some of the J examples use
box-drawing characters, which need to be in a fixed width font. Yes, I
could use tables, but the box-drawing character display is a feature
of the language.

> 2013/3/22 Daniel James <daniel.james at sourcefabric.org>:
>> Hi Tomi,
>>> But the front end could be just Booktype publishing a static
>>> html+pdf+epub version of the book to a suitable directory.
>>
>> Unless you specifically need static HTML for server load reasons, I
>> would suggest directing readers to the editable copy, e.g:
>>
>> http://booktype-demo.sourcefabric.org/algebra-an-algorithmic-treatment/chapter-1-the-language-of-mathematics/
>>
>> In current Booktype you can lock down the list of people able to edit
>> the book.
>>
>>> And then
>>> there should be a list of of published books.
>>
>> By default the Books page lists active books and recent books first,
>> before the full list of books available.
>>
>> There is nothing to stop you changing the homepage template to list PDFs
>> and EPUBs for the (finished?) books you particularly want to feature.
>> See 'Modifying the front page' here:
>>
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/booktype-en-1-5/theming-the-interface/
>>
>> Potentially you could list those PDF and EPUB files in an include file
>> which you update manually, as required.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Daniel
>
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>
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> Best Regards
> Tomi Toivio
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