Daniel James

Publish/Book export error ("Could not send the publishing request")
Hi Joris, glad to hear you got the EPUB export working. I think this error was due to switching between IP address and hostname after the install. The MOBI error is different, as export of MOBI files requires an extra step that we do not cover in t…

Comment by Daniel James July 2016 permalink
Publish/Book export error ("Could not send the publishing request")
Hi Joris, I see that http://booktype.electricelephantpublishing.de/_convert/ is a valid URL. You might try changing the value of EXPORT_ALLOWED_HOSTS to: EXPORT_ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1', '*'] in the file: /var/www/booktyp…

Comment by Daniel James June 2016 permalink
Please tell us about how you use Booktype
Hi Michael, This sounds like a great project! You may find the Insert Endnote feature, on the Insert menu of the editor, useful for your bibliographical references. Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James May 2016 permalink
Rename book gives "django-admin.py: command not found"
Hi Graabein, The easiest method to export a book for backup purposes is to use the export to EPUB feature on the Publish tab of the editor. This EPUB can be imported into another Booktype instance and renamed if required. If you want an up to date…

Comment by Daniel James May 2016 permalink
Rename book gives "django-admin.py: command not found"
Hi Graabein, Perhaps you have some Python packages installed globally, as well as inside a virtualenv. Please see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14659855/django-settings-could-not-import-unipath Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James May 2016 permalink
Cover image prints twice?
Hi Graabein, The file format is the same and should be compatible, but you may experience some breakage if you mix template and CSS files from different versions of Booktype. If you want to modify files like this, I'd suggest that you switch …

Comment by Daniel James May 2016 permalink
Sub-sections and sub-chapters?
Hi Graabein, It's not likely that standard Booktype will implement sub-chapters in the editor's Table of Contents because this would change a lot of behaviours in the editor. If you use the hierarchy of headings from H1 down, you can get…

Comment by Daniel James May 2016 permalink
Sub-sections and sub-chapters?
Hi Graabein, This is already possible using Booktype themes and the normal HTML hierarchy of headings from H1 through to H6. For example, you may wish to have a page break before every H2 heading, representing a subchapter, which is possible using …

Comment by Daniel James May 2016 permalink
Rename book gives "django-admin.py: command not found"
Hi Graabein, If Django was installed correctly, you should have a file such as: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py and also: /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py If not, using ./manage.py in place of django-admin.py wil…

Comment by Daniel James May 2016 permalink
Cover image prints twice?
Hi Graabein, Each theme has HTML template files for the frontmatter, body and endmatter of the different output formats available. These are not really duplicates, as they can differ according to the theme. In the first level of the lib/booktype/a…

Comment by Daniel James May 2016 permalink
Track changes
Hi Certaine, Thanks for this feedback. Please see the chat feature in the attached screenshot, with status and save notifications. The user only sees these messages when working in the editor. There is a list of Recent Activity on the info page f…

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
Cover image prints twice?
Hi Graabein, If you have no log output from celery it could be because you are using the production profile. Consider using the development profile if you want to modify files, it will be much easier. Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
Cover image prints twice?
Hi Graabein, If the download button is greyed out, that means export has failed, which is why the download file is not available. First I would suggest you restart supervisord to force restart of the celery workers: sudo service supervisor stop su…

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
How to edit footer information, and change sender address of system emails
You're welcome :-) Refreshing the admin interface in the browser is just a hack I use for forcing the regeneration of the .pyc files. It's safer than deleting a .pyc file manually. For the same reason, I will clear my browser cache after …

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
Internal url's does not seem to work in the exported screenpdf
Hi Graabein, I also experienced this bug when making print or screen PDFs, I filed it as https://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/BK-1922 and have added you as a watcher on the ticket. Thanks for the confirmation! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
How to edit footer information, and change sender address of system emails
Hi Graabein, To find any specific string of text in your installation, you can use the grep command with the -r recursive flag, on the directory of either the sources or the instance-specific files, like this: grep -r "Powered by Booktype&quo…

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
Booktype export error/bug relating to /etc/hostname /etc/hosts settings
Hi Graabein, The line in /etc/hosts beginning with: 127.0.0.1 is a special line which represents the localhost, i.e. the system's loopback address for itself. There would not normally be 'example.com' or any FQDN on this line for a …

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
Cover image prints twice?
Hi Graabein, https://github.com/sourcefabric/Booktype/archive/2.0.zip will get you the current state of the 2.0 branch in the git repo. After unzipping please take a look in Booktype-2.0/lib/booktype/skeleton/themes/ and you will find the files you…

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
Cover image replicated on each chapter and section - How to disable it?
Hi Graabein, this bug has been fixed, please see the other thread https://forum.sourcefabric.org/discussion/comment/34195 Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
Cover image prints twice?
Hi Quinn, hi Graabein, I tracked down this covers bug in Booktype 2.0, it has to do with the templates and CSS in the themes such as 'Academic' and 'Custom'. I fixed it while refactoring these themes to make them simpler and ea…

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
automated booktype install ubuntu 14.04 lts - virtualenv dependency error
Hi Andrew, This is a bit odd, because the 'virtualenv' package does not appear until Ubuntu Vivid (15.04) and has a dependency on Python 3, which you do not need for Booktype. I'm guessing you have tried to update your Ubuntu 14.04 s…

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
Airtime 2.5.2.1
Hi Tom, my first observation is that the stream configuration file is designed to be overwritten by the settings from the web interface, that is normal. Please refer to http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/airtime-25-for-broadcasters/stream-settings/ I…

Comment by Daniel James April 2016 permalink
Contributing to Airtime
Hi Ben, hi Alvaro, Airtime is only dependent on Debian/Ubuntu insofar as we provide installation scripts which automate system setup. In theory, you could run Airtime on any GNU/Linux server, if you were to go to the trouble of compiling every dep…

Comment by Daniel James March 2016 permalink
Is airtime for me?
Hi Ben, Yes, Airtime does support live show interruption, please see for example 'Streaming from Mixxx into Airtime' in the chapter http://sourcefabric.booktype.pro/airtime-25-for-broadcasters/live-shows-with-mixxx/ As for running Airti…

Comment by Daniel James March 2016 permalink
Feature Request: Booktype Collaboration
Hi Ala, Thanks for the feedback! I'll respond to these suggestions by number... 1. As an author, you can add users by name or alias to a specific book without knowing their email address. Depending on the configuration of the Booktype instanc…

Comment by Daniel James March 2016 permalink
visual issue
Hi Vojtěch, Glad to hear you've got it working! Please post details of the database setup error, it may be useful for other users. Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James March 2016 permalink
visual issue
Hi Vojtech, You do not need to add IP addresses by themselves to /etc/hosts - this file is the place to put host names which are not in DNS, including dummy domain names for testing. Could you paste a copy of what you have in this file for your Boo…

Comment by Daniel James March 2016 permalink
visual issue
Hi Vojtech, you have a couple of potential issues here. First, make sure that http://booktype.mlp.cz/ is resolvable, it does not seem to be in public DNS so please check that first. If you are just testing locally, try setting up an entry for the I…

Comment by Daniel James March 2016 permalink
Airtime skin for Mixxx
Hi Jason, The error with sampler visibility may go away if you can fix this warning: Warning [Main]: Requested control does not exist: "[Samplers],show_samplers" Creating it. Cheers! Daniel

Comment by Daniel James March 2016 permalink
Airtime skin for Mixxx
Hi Jason, I would recommend that you take a look at the source of the default skins for the current version of Mixxx, as many features have been added since, including samplers. If you make any updates or improvements, please make a pull request a…

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