On Nov 14, 2008, at 12:54 AM, Andrew Whitworth wrote: > 3) On page "ii" it should probably contain the name of the wiki where > the PDF was generated, and a link. Maybe also some kind of note that > the "authors" are volunteers at the project, and that the name on the > front of the book is an editor, not the "author" of it. > 4) On the cover, the editors name should be marked with "edited by" or > "Editor." or something so people know it isn't an author. On Page "i", > it should say "Written by the volunteers at project X, edited by Y". > Or something like that.
At least there should be some way to set an editor within a collection and to transmit this to pediapress. This allows for a sensible default value if people order existing collections. > 5) I like the way external hyperlinks are put into footnotes. Maybe we > could have something like a special <footnote> tag, or a <div > class="footnote"> or something that would allow writers to put certain > notes in the page footer. This would be a great substitution for some > of the messagebox templates that act like footnotes on the wiki. Maybe we should support to handle Ref/Note that way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ref/doc > 6) Math formulas are generally very well rendered and handled, > although integrals, limits and summations seem to be a bit cramped. Can you give us an example of this. Usually those formulas should look good, except for rare cases where they get too long and we need to scale them. > 7) "articles" should each begin on a new page (I'm using the word > "article" here so as not to be confused with the collections concepts > of "chapter" and "page"). I am confused. article == module != wiki-page ? > 8) Chapter headings should probably be on their own page, not just as > a bigger heading before the next chapter heading. Chapters always start on top of the next right-hand page. I think this fairly common. > 10) Some images look very pixelated and fuzzy. What kind of > compression is used? Can it be improved? We are using the highest resolution available for images. If there is only a low-res version of images this may result in pixilated images in printed books (600 DPI vs. 90 DPI of displays). A solution would be to scale the image to lower dimensions but that would be seen as a bug also. > 11) I'm sort of surprised that PediaPress doesn't post some kind of > disclaimer here somewhere. Like "PediaPress and it's affiliates aren't > responsible for the content of this book...". I'm even thinking that > [[Wikibooks:General Disclaimer]] should become a permanent part of > these books (But I want to see what people like Mike Godwin say about > it first before I go on a crusade about it). Above is true for books that are published. Otherwise we are rather acting like a "kodak-printing-service", assuming that users are knowing what they do and where the content is derived from. For existing collections this somewhere in between though. Heiko _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l
