[FM Discuss] 2013/05/12

[adam]

hey Moon,

The idea with FLOSS Manuals is that we have no style guides. Various 
people might have their own guide for their own use so they just use 
that for the books they are working on. The reason is that this is an 
open collaborative community and burdening it with rules deters people 
from contributing.

So, in otherwords, if you want to change something sign up and hit the 
edit button :)

also, if you wish to create a manual then do so :)

Welcome to FM

adam

On Mon 13 May 2013 01:12:17 AM NZST, Moon Jones wrote:
> 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
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