Samuel Klein wrote: > A few notes on books: > > please check out the latest wikibooks bundle in > [[Collections/G1G1/8.2]] -- unfortunately, those are still pdf's. > This should change for the next release, hopefully in time for 8.2.1.
Indeed. E.g. Big_Cats.pdf doesn't fit rotated, its TOC doesn't jump to pages, and all its enticing blue hyperlinks to Wikipedia don't do anything in Read (and you can't copy their URL or determine it in any way) :-( Browsing to a PDF means Browse and Read are both open, and about 30% of the time in 8.2.0 candidate builds I get a memory lockup. But just go to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_Big_Cats , click HTML Version, click Printable version, then (in Firefox 3) save as Web page, complete. All the PDF woes go away, it's faster to page up and down, it has a smaller resident memory size. Is that what you're thinking of doing for 8.2.1? How can I help? AFAICS, content from wikis only needs two things to be awesome as HTML pages on XO: 1. An HTML complete version that puts in a TOC, 2. A stylesheet appropriate for on-screen reading, something halfway between what you see and the print stylesheet (there may be a skin already for this, &useskin=chick is close). Should I file tracking bugs at dev.laptop.org for these MediaWiki/Wikimedia issues? I think people involved with Wikibooks and Wikijunior would be more than willing to work on these issues knowing that their content is featured in OLPC. And even in its current state, the _Printable version_ link in Browse makes an acceptable eBook. P.S. <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Physics_(Advancing_Physics)/Print_Version> with the animated GIFs for waves! That would have blown my mind back in the day. -- =S Page user:skierpage _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
