[Journal] Tons of cleanup done... next steps

[Sunburned Surveyor]

I forgot to mention, if you send me the final PDF I can work on
creating the individual PDF files for each article.

Landon

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Sunburned Surveyor
<sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll give you the honors of the announcement. I'll post something on
> Slashgeo when Volume 6 is available for download. Don't forget to look
> at the brief comments I just sent to the mailling list before putting
> out the final version.
>
> Also, shoot me an e-mail about how I can help with Volume 7 or 8.
> Remember my ability to assist is restricted as we get towards the end
> of the process, so I need to help the most at the beginning of the
> process for each volume.
>
> I'm glad we are finally pulling this together. It makes me feel like I
> actually get something useful done as an OSGeo member. :]
>
> Landon
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Tyler Mitchell <tmitchell.osgeo at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Hi again, I spent the better part of a couple days going through various
>> improvements, hopefully, to the document.  I'm happy with it now.  In a
>> couple articles I converted bullet point lists that had many sentences into
>> basic paragraphs.  I tweaked a ton of layout - which hopefully won't get too
>> messed up when I make a US Letter version of the PDF later :)
>> Next on my list is to split up the main PDF into sub article PDFs.  These
>> (along with final .tex files) then get loaded back into OJS as final
>> documents for each article - this allows them to be presented automatically
>> in OJS with proper reference back to the author, and this helps us keep the
>> files in OJS for future reference without having to dig into SVN.  One thing
>> it supports too are abstracts, which we haven't really been collecting so
>> far, that can also be searchable through the site tools.
>> Yes, a bit more work, but I'll take care of it and think there is good
>> value.  I hope eventually that the OJS <--> SVN linkage will become
>> automated in the core OJS app.
>> More as I wrap it up and make an announcement.  Landon, you're welcome to
>> make the announcement if you'd like, otherwise I'll just move forward and do
>> it tonight or tomorrow.
>> Tyler
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