[FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book

[M R]

Thanks, Mick -- the weekend would be fine with me.  Maybe best to have someone who has some familiarity with the old book, and in general with the folkways of FM.


I may have mentioned this before, but there's one specific formatting issue I'd like you (or whoever reviews) to consider, aside from whatever else comes up.  In the Menu Bar chapter there is extensive use of tables to hold the menu information.  As I did wherever possible, here I preserved the formatting from the original book, where these tables were set to zero cell padding and no border.  This worked well enough in the original version, when each cell entry was at most a single sentence in length, and it resulted in a nice clean design.  However, Audacity 2.x's much more extensive use of submenus forced me to make considerably longer entries in some of those table cells, and I'm not certain how readable the end result is for some tables.  I think the solution would be pretty straightforward: either adding a bit of cell padding to each table, or adding a narrow border.  But I didn't want to go either way without consultation.  I don't think this issue afflicts any chapter beyond the Menu Bar ch.


Matt


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HI there,



This sounds good. Can  anyone step forward to have a look over the Audacity manual before we do a pdf and epub print for the front page?

I can do it at the weekend if not.



Thanks

Mick





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Sent: 18 January 2018 21:05
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Mick:



It looks to me like other folks have finished adding in their pieces to the non-Windows sections of the manual re-write, so whenever you get a chance at some quality control (just because I assume that someone needs to, who hasn't been a writer-contributor), then we can wrap this up and get it published, to start helping whoever out there might actually want to use it.



Actually, I suppose someone else could handle the review too -- not sure what the protocol is here.  But I just wanted to make sure this stays in the queue as a near-term task.  I assume we all have day jobs 😊 (I'm a college professor so I was just on holiday break -- that's why I could find 50 hrs or so to do the bulk of the rewrite).



thanks,



Matt



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To exit  chapter titles you just double click into the title on the chapter list screen.





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I actually wanted to edit some of the other chapter TITLES a bit, but couldn't figure out a way to do that.  No big deal though, as the current titles will serve.  I did drag one entire chapter out of the to-be-published structure and down to the bottom: that was "MP3 INSTALLATION ON WINDOWS" bc it's no longer necessary to install the LAME MP3 codec separately.  Just one of many ways that Audacity has gotten more user-friendly over the years.



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