<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Excited to dive into this!! thanks adam!<div>-jc<br><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 13:55 -0700, Adam Tindale wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi All,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am the Maintainer for the ChucK documentation and we are in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">midst of a sprint to get the manual into FLOSS manuals. I have put a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">bunch of it live so you can see it here:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/ChucK/Introduction">http://en.flossmanuals.net/ChucK/Introduction</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Our manual is about 190 pages and most of it is now living in FLOSS<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">manuals. We also have a few people doing entirely new sections of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">documentation. This is a bit of an experiment to see if a migration is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">actually the best thing for the project.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have noticed a bunch of things that I am wondering about.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">1. There doesn't seem to be a way to delete chapters.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2. We have a problem with page 2 (see our places page)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> It has a repeated <-Previous link at the top and it is messing up<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the formatting.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3. OBJAVI outputs one blank page<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">4. The PDF output has many errors. Whenever a word starts with f the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">character gets rendered as something else.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">My short term needs are access to the CSS so I can change the style.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Because ChucK is a command line programming language we have greater<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">needs for precise formatting so we don't confuse the users.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am also hoping to find out about how to control the output of the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">PDF more precisely. Our old manual was made in LaTeX and I have a lot<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of experience there that could be useful.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have been doing the manual mostly alone for nearly 5 years. During<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the sprint I had 4 very active users helping out. FLOSS manuals has<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">made that possible. In order to convince the project that a full<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">migration to FLOSS is the best option I think we will need to be able<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to work out our formatting issues. Any help or advice is greatly<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">appreciated.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Adam<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Discuss mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.flossmanuals.net">Discuss@lists.flossmanuals.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net">http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>