[Plone-docs] Re: PloneBook online?

[Raphael R. <r....@bi...>]

Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> Raphael Ritz wrote:
> 
>>OK, here it is: http://his.biologie.hu-berlin.de
>>PS: The script to auto-generate/update the book from CVS is about half-way
>>done. I'll add it to the scripts folder when it is finished.
> 
> 
> Thanks for this. Once the book reST source is readily auto-converting to
> HTML,

There is no need for this as soon as you use ATContentTypes which
are going to replace the current content types anyway with the
next major Plone update. In that case, portal_transforms takes
care of the conversion and you only need to provide a docutils
version which isn't too old, i.e., with a recent version of Zope
you are usually fine.

> it would be really great to have a ThePloneBook product that could
> be installed with a repository snapshot of the reST, PNGs, etc.

While writing the script that generated the current online version
I was actually also thinking that I could wrap this up as a little
product. Maybe I'll do so on the next update ...

> I'd love to be able to svn update and get the latest book source reflected
> in multiple portals. It would be a valuable resource to provide to the
> site manager.

Indeed, that was my driving force too. I just wanted to make
it available locally to my students ...
> 
> You'd typically only want one instance per site, so I don't think an
> addable content type is really called for, but maybe a ZMI page with an
> 'Add Plone Book at Path (Folder):(enter Folder Path)' interface would be
> sufficient.

Good idea. I'll try to include this

Raphael