[FM Discuss] Modifying Bookipublisher

[Tomi Toivio]

Hi,

Remember this installation is only for testing and not for real work.
It is a test server and goes down all the time. :)

Regards
Tomi

2013/3/23 Edward Mokurai Cherlin <mokurai at sugarlabs.org>:
> 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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>> Tomi Toivio
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