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Set filename for chapter export
Hi Eric, One thing that would break is external links to the web representation of the book, which depending on how you are publishing may or may not be important. This was the original rationale for not updating the basenames on a chapter name chan…

Comment by Daniel James September 2018 permalink
Footnotes vs. Endnotes, inDesign
Hi Eric, By default, Booktype does endnotes, as they are the simplest. Having footnotes depends on the output converter you are using. For example, mPDF has a footer area on each page, but this is generally used ro running footers (such as page numb…

Comment by Daniel James September 2018 permalink
Problem finding booktype package after adding sourcefabric apt
Hi Eric, Thanks for pointing that out, you are right that the postinst does need updating for that change in 2.4.0. For a production instance it would be manage_prod.py Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James September 2018 permalink
Problem finding booktype package after adding sourcefabric apt
Hi Eric, This is because Booktype 2.4.0 is not released yet. Once the package is available it will be added to the newly supported 'bionic' distro on the apt repo. In the meantime you can find daily snapshot packages here: http://apt.sour…

Comment by Daniel James September 2018 permalink
Booktype 2.4
Hi William, This is simply because Booktype 2.4.0 has not been released yet, look out for it soon! At that time the .deb package should be updated. In the meantime you can find test packages at http://apt.sourcefabric.org/snapshots/ Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James August 2018 permalink
Booktype 2 and Objavi
Hi Nicolas, You are quite right, Objavi was used in Booktype 1.x only and is now deprecated. In Booktype 2.x there are a number of different converters available, which you can find in https://github.com/booktype/Booktype/tree/master/lib/booktype/c…

Comment by Daniel James August 2018 permalink
Book export not working
Thanks Nicolas, I have added a tip about EXPORT_ALLOWED_HOSTSto the manual chapter http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/booktype-24-for-authors-and-publishers/manual-installation-on-gnulinux/

Comment by Daniel James August 2018 permalink
Suggestion on the Installation Guide 2.4 Debian
I can reproduce the issue with gitrepo.tags which should be populated with the git tag checked out, for example 'v2.3.0'. This clearly doesn't work so I will file a bug ticket for that. Thanks for the report!

Comment by Daniel James August 2018 permalink
Suggestion on the Installation Guide 2.4 Debian
Hi Juanny, Thanks for the tip! I have added this to step 8 of 'Creating a Booktype instance' here: http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/booktype-24-for-authors-and-publishers/manual-installation-on-gnulinux/ Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James August 2018 permalink
Please tell us about how you use Booktype
Hi Juanny, Good to hear you got the install completed. If you are sure that your path to pandoc in the active settings file now matches your pandoc installation, it may be that you need to restart celery or WSGI with:sudo supervisorctl restart all s…

Comment by Daniel James July 2018 permalink
list-books.json with Booktype 2.x
Hi Nicolas, Thanks for the tip, I will add this to the user manual. We use Nginx for managed Booktype hosting so we had not run into this issue with Apache before. Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James July 2018 permalink
Multiple Bullet List Formats
Hi Sharan, Sorry about the ticket access, please attach the example in this forum. In addition to custom bullet points, HTML supports the 'kbd' and 'code' tags, would these suit your needs also? Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James July 2018 permalink
latest attempt on a Mac
Hi Shane, A virtualenv is optional. If you are installing Booktype on a machine running lots of other Python programs (such as your desktop machine) it would be beneficial, to prevent conflicting versions of Python dependencies being installed for s…

Comment by Daniel James June 2018 permalink
list-books.json with Booktype 2.x
I have added some pointers on using the API here: http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/booktype-24-for-authors-and-publishers/using-the-booktype-api/

Comment by Daniel James June 2018 permalink
list-books.json with Booktype 2.x
Hi Nicolas, In Booktype 2.x the API is far more advanced and is self-documenting. First, you need to authenticate, for a quick test you can log into https://demo.booktype.pro Once logged into the demo site: https://demo.booktype.pro/_api/#!/boo…

Comment by Daniel James June 2018 permalink
Booktype detailed documentation
Hi Nicolas, There is some older material in https://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/Booktype/ but it is likely to be out of date. Please let me know if you find anything useful there so I can move it into the maintained docs. If you need to know anyth…

Comment by Daniel James June 2018 permalink
Booktype detailed documentation
Hi Nicolas, There are some developer docs at http://booktype.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ but you might find they lack sufficient detail. I'd welcome suggestions for improvement. Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James June 2018 permalink
Booktype 1.6.1 to 2.x upgrade
Hi Nicolas, That is a good question, we have not attempted an upgrade of this many versions for a while. I would recommend that you keep a backup of your Booktype 1.6.x system and maybe clone it to a test system before upgrading your production syst…

Comment by Daniel James June 2018 permalink
latest attempt on a Mac
Hi Shane, This probably means you only have Python 3 installed, or it is set as the default. For the time being you need to have Python 2.7.x installed to run Booktype. Please see http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/osx/ for some…

Comment by Daniel James June 2018 permalink
Suggestions for alternatives?
Hi Norbert, That sounds good, we will update the Digital Ocean tutorial for Booktype after the Booktype 2.4.0 release. Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James June 2018 permalink
latest attempt on a Mac
Hi Shane, I had not experienced this error on GNU/Linux, it sounds like you might be using Python 3 to run a script written for Python 2. What does this command output please? python --version

Comment by Daniel James June 2018 permalink
Suggestions for alternatives?
Hi Norbert, Which server platform are you running please? It may be that we can provide you with a installation package to make things easier for you. Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James June 2018 permalink
Please tell us about how you use Booktype
Hi Juanny, I have updated the installation instructions for Debian (stretch): http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/booktype-23-for-authors-and-publishers/manual-installation-on-gnulinux/ The procedure is pretty much the same as for Debian 8, but ther…

Comment by Daniel James May 2018 permalink
Please tell us about how you use Booktype
Hi Juanny, we would love to hear how that goes! Pressbooks has some support for mPDF: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/pressbooks-mpdf/ We are happy to share our experiences of using mPDF with any Pressbooks user. mPDF is a very capable render…

Comment by Daniel James May 2018 permalink
Book export not working
Hi Marius, If you are using Apache to serve http://autopublicare.bibliotecaarad.ro/_convert/ what does the Apache error log say about the request from Booktype? We'd like to help you get this working! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James April 2018 permalink
Please tell us about how you use Booktype
Hi Juanny, thanks for the feedback! We will be updating the official install guide for Debian 9, and are taking down links to the older instructions where we can. The DigitalOcean tutorial is now out of date, and so that link will be taken down too.…

Comment by Daniel James April 2018 permalink
Please help me
Hi, Newscoop is no longer actively developed, but we will help you if we can. What is the URL of your Newscoop instance please? Do you know the version you are running? Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James April 2018 permalink
Cannot create Booktype instance1
Hi Milton, the difference between dev and prod profiles is that dev is more suitable for debugging, while prod should have better performance. Starting with the dev profile is not a bad idea. As for the "-p dev" argument to the createbook…

Comment by Daniel James April 2018 permalink
Amazon AWS EC2 IP address won't display web page
Hi Sarah, The address you mention does not seem to be resolvable from the public Internet. I cannot get a ping from the IPv4 address 172.31.5.46 either. I would suggest you check your Apache configuration to confirm that it matches a resolvable ho…

Comment by Daniel James March 2018 permalink
Multiple Bullet List Formats
Hi Sharan, This is definitely possible, using a class on the unordered list to indicate the list-style-type. As you are a Booktype Pro user, I have opened a feature ticket for you at https://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/BTPRO-1326 Please attach som…

Comment by Daniel James January 2018 permalink

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