[FM Discuss] next steps on Audacity book

Wed Jan 24 13:34:01 PST 2018

I don't see any problems, it seemst to have worked just fine, see
screenshot.

Thank you very much, Mick!

Maren

Am 24.01.2018 um 21:33 schrieb Rosalind Lord:
> 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
>> <mailto: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
>>
>> 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
>>> <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
>>>> <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:* Monday, January 22, 2018 1:00 AM
>>>> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
>>>> <mailto: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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>>>>
>>>> EdLab Project Developer
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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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
>>>> <mailto: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>
>>>> <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>
>>> <mailto:M.Chesterman at mmu.ac.uk>>
>>>> *Sent:* Friday, January 12, 2018 4:12 AM
>>>> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
>>>> <mailto:discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net>
>>> <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>
>>>> <mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net>> on behalf of M R
>>>> <matrobnew at hotmail.com <mailto:matrobnew at hotmail.com>
>>>> <mailto:matrobnew at hotmail.com>>
>>>>
>>>> *Sent:*12 January 2018 10:55
>>>> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
>>>> <mailto: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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