[FM Discuss] 2013/05/12

[Moon Jones]

Hello!

I have just discovered FLOSS Manuals and I love the idea. I even 
downloaded a couple, including the manual for booki.

I have been lurking  around for a couple of days waiting for some 
guidelines, but I've seen the reports of a new book and nothing more.

Where is the appropiate place to talk about styles. So far I have 
noticed all PDF books have the same problem: orphan section titles, 
meaning they are the last line on the page and they don't keep together 
with the first paragraph of the section. For epub, as a continuous page, 
this is not an issue.

Also where can I give suggestions or corrections for a book? In the Open 
Source spirit I can fork out my own version, of course. But I dislike 
this particular aspect of the open source development because two teams 
would be doing the same development soon after just for the sake of some 
style difference.

In particular I found An Open Web very useful. But there are a few times 
the author uses «more slow» instead of «slower». Or, on page 14, «even 
though Google provides options to not  tie its Chrome browser to your 
accounts on Google» is misleading. Google WILL DO anything to tie your 
browsing to some identity. This way, beyond the usual fingerprinting 
features of each brower, there are a few strings that identify one 
instance of Chrome among the rest of their 20+% market share. Today, one 
option would be to use Iron, which is precisely Chrome without those 
strings. Also Opera could be mentioned, some swear it's the fastest, 
even if it's not open. Now, if these touches would make someone feel 
they start a browser war, I'm sure the people would be better off 
without them.

Cheers
Moon