We're wrapping up the London code sprint today. We've done a decent amount of book review, which will stand us in good stead when we get to Woolman and we've also made some minor improvements to the books at book.civicrm.org.
Books now have a 'breadcrumb' which show you what section you are reading and they also have proper titles, which should make them more visible when people are googling for help.
It would be great to hear other ideas for improving the publication process.
My number one improvement would be some form of funky jquery commenting system would be great if you want to suggest one. I'd also like to get rid of the enforced caps in sections and chapters in the menu (which is also reflected in the page title).
Feel free to download and play around with the publishing script (it is pretty easy to get to grips with).
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I understand the aim of pushing the book to benefit more from the interactive online features and get users comment and what else.
However, I think that's equally important to have a "proper" book, have a downloadable pdf version, kindle or nook, pad and an option to buy a dead tree version.
Could you add these?
Yes it is reasonably easy to add epub and pdf to the process.
ATM we are getting Objavi to output formatted html - we can add epub and pdf to the request as well. just needs to be added to the bookipublisherlite script (see above).
Thanks to all involved for the work. I think the documentation for CiviCRM is now of a very high standard.
Just for the sake of clarity, is it still the case that the books at http://en.flossmanuals.net are the same as the books at http://book.civicrm.org, and by the same token, the same as the printed book available from lulu.com? i.e. all three sources are kept up to date and in sync?