Lulu

[Matthew East]

Hi Paul,

No need to CC me, I read the list.

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 23:03 +0100, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> Matthew East wrote:
{snip}
> >2. Size - Obviously, we need to decide which is the right size, and
> >adjust the fonts in the documents accordingly.
> Its just a thought the size should be Crown Quarto
> Reason, most other tech books around the same size
> Perfect Bound
> Again looks like the typical book.

Yes, I am always tempted by Perfect Bound. Re: size, I don't really have
a view, let's see what everything thinks.

> >3. Cover art - we should probably approach the art team about cover art.
> >Maybe they can help us out by 
> I have an idea for a basic cover design.

I'm afraid this is all much too complicated. We're going to be uploading
all our guides, not just the desktop guide, and we'll need a really
simple cover which we can easily use for all these. Here's this done
well (although I'm not crazy about the colour ;D) -
http://yovko.net/?p=744

> >4. Colour - do we want to include colour in the pdfs? It costs a certain
> >amount extra per colour page, so we might want to think about limiting
> >it to black and white, except for the cover page. If so, we might need
> >to have a look at some alternative admonition icons (possibly the art
> >team could help us with those too)
> >  
> >
> Do two or four  pages of "landscape" identification for users.
>  From the menus to pointing at the trash can and battery icon.
> The help button on the screen.

You've misunderstood this a bit: we're not thinking of adding in any
post-freeze screenshots. "Colour" simply means coloured admonition icons
(warning, note, etc) and blue links.

> >5. PDFs - some refining still needs to be done on the pdfs, like
> >including subsection numbers and playing around a bit with the fonts.
> >Any suggestions about formatting of the pdfs, please let me know.
> Could the automatic labelling that is used in some of the web site be 
> used to create it?

Sorry, don't know what you mean. I was talking about improving the
formatting of the PDF files, things like margins, headings, fonts, and
so on.

> >Can anyone think of anything else we need to think about? ;)
> In the future should the docs evolve around having one set per release.
> Bin them once the release is retired.

Do you mean remove them from Lulu when the release is retired? This
sounds relatively sensible. We'll probably be doing that with the
documents on the website too.

Matt
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