We have been running a very old version of Booki on <a href="http://fi.flossmanuals.net">fi.flossmanuals.net</a> for approximately a year now and my experience is that the book editing system has worked fine even with an obsolete version of the system. And this is the most important thing.<br>
<br>The problem was that it is such an old version that it doesn't have the microblogging messaging system yet, which means it has been a very unsocial platform for collaborative book editing... :) <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2012/2/14 James Simmons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com">nicestep@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Adam,<br>
<br>
Best wishes for Booktype. We sure need something like that--something<br>
we can use to make e-books and print-on-demand books with<br>
collaboration. My current Booki install is good up to a point, and I<br>
did use it for an e-book and a CreateSpace book. The problem was that<br>
Booki's epub lacked a table of contents page, so I had to use Sigil<br>
and the Seamonkey web page editor plus a Zip utility to fix that. My<br>
Create Space PDF needed to have photographs 300 DPI or better, so I<br>
ended up copying and pasting my chapters into the 6x9" template Create<br>
Space provides for Word. I used Open Office instead, and the result<br>
was that I lost all my italics and bolds on paste. (I did a Paste<br>
Special using the HTML option which *should* have preserved them but<br>
didn't). So I had to fix this by hand and I know I missed a lot.<br>
Then I ran spell check in Open Office and found a LOT of dumb errors<br>
that many, many readings had missed. So I had to fix my e-book in<br>
Sigil by hand and re-upload that.<br>
<br>
I'm getting a second proof copy from CreateSpace on Thursday and<br>
already I know I need to fix a bunch more italics and bolds I missed<br>
the first time. That's an Open Office bug, not a Booki bug (MS Word<br>
does the paste correctly) but if Booki had been a little better I<br>
would not have had to deal with OO.<br>
<br>
On top of that Booki was pretty difficult to install. Plus way too<br>
frequently you get an empty editing window when you go to edit a<br>
chapter, not just in Firefox but in Chrome too, although not as often.<br>
<br>
I still believe in the potential of this software though. One day it<br>
will do everything a book publishing system needs to do, and it will<br>
Just Work.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
James Simmons<br>
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<br>
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:10 AM, adam <<a href="mailto:adam@flossmanuals.net">adam@flossmanuals.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> hi,<br>
><br>
> as you know FM has been involved in building a Open Source collaborative<br>
> book production platform for the last 2 years. We recently formed an<br>
> alliance with Sourcefabric (Berlin based Open Source company) to develop it<br>
> further.<br>
><br>
> So today is the day Booki has been renamed and had a lot of work on it. Its<br>
> now called Booktype and the demo is now here:<br>
> <a href="http://booktype-demo.sourcefabric.org/" target="_blank">http://booktype-demo.sourcefabric.org/</a><br>
><br>
> The site is here:<br>
> <a href="http://www.booktype.org" target="_blank">http://www.booktype.org</a><br>
><br>
> Its pretty much the same thing but stronger, faster, better, more<br>
><br>
> We will upgrade fm and booki.cc with the new sources soon. In the meantime<br>
> there is a new manual on FM for Booktype although it needs some love. if<br>
> anyone would like to jump in please do! The manual needs to be improved a<br>
> lot and all help welcome<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://booki.flossmanuals.net/booktype/_edit/" target="_blank">http://booki.flossmanuals.net/booktype/_edit/</a><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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><br>
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