[FM Discuss] Modifying Bookipublisher

[Edward Mokurai Cherlin]

On Sat, March 23, 2013 2:21 pm, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Remember this installation is only for testing and not for real work.
> It is a test server and goes down all the time. :)

Yes, indeed. I am not going to erase anything from booki while I test
your Booktype.

My purpose is to test your formatting and your PDF and other document
generation, and to find out how to configure such a server. I plan to
put up a test Booktype server for Sugar Labs when I understand things
a bit better. I put in several sections and generated a PDF, in which
I see numerous issues that I will talk to you about offline.

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best Regards
>>> Tomi Toivio
>>> Open Source Coordinator
>>> http://fi.flossmanuals.net/
>>> tomi at flossmanuals.net
>>> +358453536625

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