@allisonbrown The Acknowledgments and blurb of praise documents are ready to go into their respective sections in the book! We are finalizing chapter 5 and it should be ready soon too.
Those are the last pieces of content for the book, and then we’ll just need to have the cover finalized and we’re ready to go. Hopefully we can get them all in soon so we can publicize the book for use for January courses!
@christina.hendricks I think all that’s left in Ch. 5 is just your proposed footnote.
After @allisonbrown finishes importing the content to PB, I’m happy to do a quick final proofread for typos, etc.
Thank you, @metatechne! I am just waiting for the go-ahead from the editor on the footnote. And @allisonbrown, do you think you might be able to get these pieces into Pressbooks soon? Just looking for a possible timeline. And I can also put them in if needed! Thanks so much.
I had some time so I imported the Acknowledgements, Praise for the book, and Chapter 5 into Pressbooks. I noticed that the format of the captions on the images in chapter 5 look different than those in the other chapters. @metatechne, can you let me know if we need to change the captions on images in chapter 5 to match the others, or vice versa?
I also notice there are quite a few footnotes in chapter 8 that are just citations. We have been trying to keep footnotes to a minimum, only using them for explanatory purposes rather than citations. Do you think many of those could just be parenthetical citations? Or do they serve a different function?
@christina.hendricks I can take a run through on the captions as imported to PB. I didn’t really work in PB at all for the last text, so it might be a little slow. Can you link me to where I should be looking?
And for the footnotes on Chapter 8, I kept them as footnotes because they’re very quick references (i.e. compare with and see also) and that kind of thing (unless very sparing) is not usually fit for the main body. If it were up to me, I’d wonder whether some of the references are needed at all: If they don’t advance the chapter text and require a lot of look-up on the part of the reader to make the connections, it might be best to make an editorial decision as to their necessity at all, so I’ll leave that up to you!
Thank you, @metatechne! Here is the draft of the book.. I can send you an invitation to edit the book if you want, or I can just do the edits if that would be easier. And I’ll think about the footnotes in chapter 8…
I’m happy to make the edits directly, @christina.hendricks. And that way, I can do the final proofing at the same time!
@christina.hendricks I’m taking a look now at the PB chapters, and I’m not quite sure why but the “Media Attributions” are formatted so differently from how they appeared as captions in the google docs. For instance, © Public Domain and © CC BY-NC aren’t quite correct, since what ought to follow © is the copyright holder. Hence, if a work is in the public domain, it has no copyright holder, so it should just read as was formatted in the captions (i.e. This work is in the public domain). And the copyright holder of a CC-licensed item is the person who holds the license, so the type of license shouldn’t appear there (but elsewhere in the attribution).
If you still use the Formatting/Style Guide google doc, I’ll also add how to write a correct attribution there so that an example can just be followed in the future.
Edit - This actually shouldn’t take too long! I’ll be able to work on this tonight and update you tomorrow.
Colleen, I’ll be curious to hear if you’re able to edit the display of the media attributions — if not, let me know, and I can report this back to the Pressbooks team. I can also send them a copy of the ‘correct attribution’ from the Formatting/Style Guide for reference.
Will do, @apurva! Sorry for not tagging you. I’m never quite sure when to tag you or Christina, or both. I’ll give an update very soon.
No worries — Christina is the best person to tag! I have my eye on the project discussion, and generally follow along as updates are posted and jump in only when needed or asked. 
Ah, now I think I see where some of the differences came from, @apurva. I imagine if I were to choose “Public Domain” as a license option, it’d show up as © Public Domain in the “Media Attribution” section of the chapter, right? And if I choose a CC license, it’d show up as © CC BY? If so, you’re right that I won’t be able to make the appropriate corrections I mentioned above.
One thing too is sometimes we’ll need to specify a CC license that is not version 4.0. I noticed in some chapters that 2.0 and 2.5 were linked in the Media Attribution section as 4.0 (whereas the caption in-text still had the correct version linked). Is there any way to specify the license version in the widget? If not, I wouldn’t want to link to the wrong deed.
Thanks, @metatechne, for catching this. Yes, the media attributions are generated automatically in Pressboooks, when you fill out those fields. So it’s not something we can change ourselves I think. We could just get rid of the media attributions at the bottom of the chapters and use only the captions on the images themselves.
What do you think, @apurva?
I’ve just submitted a report to the Pressbooks team, both about the word order of the auto-generated media attributions and about the possibility of linking to older CC licenses when needed. I’ll keep you posted when I hear from them. Until then, yes, I’d suggest removing the media attributions from the image metadata and ensure this information is clearly included in the image caption itself.
Thanks, @apurva. For now, I just turned off the “display media attributions” function in “global options” under “appearance.” So the media attributions should not show up at the end of the chapters at all anymore. We can just use the captions.
I am keeping the media attribution information in the metadata for the images in case we want to turn that option back on if the auto-generated attribution function gets reworked!
@christina.hendricks - Cool, I’ll just make the captions all consistent, then. (Sorry I missed some of those earlier.)
OK, all set now, @christina.hendricks: captions are all consistent (note that for anonymous works I simply omitted a creator rather than writing “by unknown”, e.g.); all the references and further-reading citations are double-checked; and I did a final proof of the chapters’ text as well as the front- and back-matter. Hopefully caught all the slip-ups I missed previously.
PB made the correcting seamless, so I finished much earlier than I estimated!
Great, thanks Christina!
We are so close! Thank you very much, @metatechne, for fixing the captions.
I just went through and checked the PDF exports, and just found one wonky thing I can’t seem to fix. There is an image inside of a tex tbox on p. 20 of the PDF export that is going outside the lines of the text box. The caption looks fine on the web book, but doesn’t work on the PDF export. There is also a page break between the title of the box and the text of the box, and I wonder if there is a way to stop that from happening? @apurva
Otherwise, I think we’re good to go except for the cover, which should be ready very soon!
I’ve added some CSS in the PDF stylesheet to prevent the title and body of the textbox from displaying on 2 different pages. As for the image caption on p. 20, I may need to pass that along to the Pressbooks team to diagnose. I will let you know what they say soon!
