[FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book
Rosalind Lord
rclord at seaserpent.com
Wed Jan 24 12:33:18 PST 2018
Mick, would you like me to help with this? I have lots of experience coding HTML and CSS.
- Rosalind
> On Jan 23, 2018, at 11:59 PM, Mick Chesterman <M.Chesterman at mmu.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> 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 <https://gitlab.com/flossmanuals/fm_booktype/issues>
>
> Thanks
> Mick
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net <mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net>] On Behalf Of
>> Maren Hachmann
>> Sent: 23 January 2018 23:16
>> To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net <mailto: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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>>> *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
>>> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
>> <mailto:discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net>
>>> *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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