Hi Adam - <br>Great questions and requests! <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Adam Monsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haircut@gmail.com">haircut@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> 1. links do not render well in print<br>
> 2. if a chapter is renamed or deleted you might make the link outdated<br>
> 3. if the manual is translated, links have to be "translated" too so that<br>
> they point to the correct language<br>
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</div>Good points.<br>
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It would still be very useful for us to have cross-referencing. LaTeX,<br>
MS Word, and other systems provide a means for cross-referencing<br>
(including a way to print them), and the feature is quite useful in<br>
documentation.<br>
<br>
Can we request this as an enhancement? Part of the enhancement request<br>
would be that the link would change with the link target. The Mifos<br>
manual is likely to get very large.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Erm, there won't be enhancements on the TWiki-based FLOSS Manuals tool as all development efforts are going into Booki development, a new collaborative authoring tool. You can read more about it at <a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/booki">http://en.flossmanuals.net/booki</a>. I don't see a specific section about cross-references, but you'll generally get the same reasoning for avoiding cross-referencing. You can see the alpha in progress at <a href="http://www.booki.cc/">http://www.booki.cc/</a>. Cross-references used wisely can be a great enhancement to a publication.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
> When you want to publish a draft, send an email to the list and someone with<br>
> publish privileges will publish it. Typically this doesn't take long. We can<br>
> talk more about adding privileges to a maintainer person if you think that's<br>
> the right model for your group - see<br>
> <a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/Maintainers" target="_blank">http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/Maintainers</a>.<br>
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</div>Yes, we would like this. Would you mind making AnitaAnderson and<br>
AdamMonsen maintainers for the Mifos manual?<br></blockquote><div><br>I can't do that but Adam Hyde or Cara Bell-Jones can, I believe. Sit tight for another few days for Adam to return from vacation.<br><br>And, I went ahead and clicked Publish now. Here's the Introduction: <a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/Mifos/Welcome">http://en.flossmanuals.net/Mifos/Welcome</a>. <br>
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6. Is there a way to build a true index, cross-referencing locations<br>
in the text to specific words and phrases, like what you'd generally<br>
see at the end of a textbook? (and like what appears in the most<br>
awesome book "Conversation and Community: The Social Web for<br>
Documentation")?<br></blockquote><div><br>Hee. My editor/indexer will be happy to know the index is appreciated! :) There is no indexing capability in FLOSS Manuals's Twiki toolset. It's a good question - I highly value indexes and would love to see the capability built into Booki.<br>
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7. Is there a more convenient interface for the upload manager? Like,<br>
a bulk upload, or a WebDAV frontend?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Adam can do bulk uploads of graphics and the like... but it requires server access as you might imagine and I don't think he can give that, but typically you could email him a zip file with your files for upload and he can do it. <br>
<br>Hope this helps!<br>Anne<br></div></div>