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