[FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book

Tue Jan 23 23:59:11 PST 2018

Hi there,

I've added an override but it doesn't seem to have taken.
Can you start a ticket here and let's try to solve this together.
https://gitlab.com/flossmanuals/fm_booktype/issues

Thanks
Mick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net] On Behalf Of
> Maren Hachmann
> Sent: 23 January 2018 23:16
> To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book
>
> Piggy-backing, as I've got a CSS change request, too:
> The font size for ordered / unordered lists is too small by default (12px
> instead of 13px for all other text in a manual), because the lists are not
> wrapped in paragraphs (which have a font size of 13), and inherit the body
> font size.
>
> As this doesn't only affect the Inkscape guide, but all books on the site, and
> all lists in them, it needs to be fixed on server level.
> Fixing each list individually, and thus having inline styles that might mess up
> exporting would be possible, but tedious and ugly.
>
> Could you please set the font size for lists inside the content area to 13, too?
>
> CSS to modify, starting line 1574 in booki.css:
>
> #full-view-content p, #bookcontent p, #bookcontent ol, #bookcontent ul {
> font-size: 13px;
> line-height: 140%;
> margin: 1em 0;
> padding: 0;
> }
>
> Thanks,
>  Maren
>
> Am 23.01.2018 um 04:31 schrieb 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
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net> on behalf of
> > Mick Chesterman <M.Chesterman at mmu.ac.uk>
> > *Sent:* Monday, January 22, 2018 1:00 AM
> > *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > *Subject:* Re: [FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mick Chesterman
> >
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> > *From:*Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net] *On
> > Behalf Of *M R
> > *Sent:* 18 January 2018 21:05
> > *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > *Subject:* Re: [FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > *From:*Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > <mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net>> on behalf of Mick
> > Chesterman <M.Chesterman at mmu.ac.uk
> <mailto:M.Chesterman at mmu.ac.uk>>
> > *Sent:* Friday, January 12, 2018 4:12 AM
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> <mailto:discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net>
> > *Subject:* Re: [FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book
> >
> >
> >
> > To exit  chapter titles you just double click into the title on the
> > chapter list screen.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:*Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > <mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net>> on behalf of M R
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> > *Sent:*12 January 2018 10:55
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> > *Subject:* Re: [FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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