Hi Claint,

Sure I did contact Charles Matthews. http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewto ... 30#p181230

[edit] and this two for the whole story...
http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewto ... 31#p181231
http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewto ... 78#p181278
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(See the whole topic, the link to the full book is also available in that topic)

I started that project after "Shape UP!" went into a "Creative Commons" license.

So my project will continue !

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Oh, it was nice to learn "Shape Up" is CC-SA now. Cool beans.

Oca, I think it might be a good idea to edit some info about the recent CC-SA licensing of this book into your opening post so that people who stumble over this thread can see it right at the beginning

Great project, BTW!

Regards, Tom

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Good Idea , I just did that in the first post.

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Nice project!

Also, nice GoBook editor! It seems like it would be a very useful tool for many. Thank you for making it available as a web service.

Is your GoBook editor an open source project?

Hi YeGO,

Thank you for your interst in this project !

My priority in this project is to complete the translation of "Shape UP !".
I know there are still bugs in my javascript engine, especially with the "::var" tags which isn't 100%, but I won't fix it before I completed the translation of the book.
I know I can easly fall in the trap to spend all my time writing code... while what I want is the gobook...

That said, once I will have completed the translation, I will take time to fix the issues I found in the javascript engine.
I wrote that engine in a way that it is easy to unit-test.

For whose who like code :


so every thing is in place to make it more robust... I just need a bit more time

Once the engine would be fixed, I will clean a bit the MyOwnGoBook app and create git-hub projects for both the app and the engine, so that anyone can use/modify the code the way they want to.

So next steps are :

First :focus on the translation, where I can spend something like 2 hours per week on Thursday night.

Then : Think about distribution...

The best will be to have the book available both on "the official" gobook app, and online aside with the pdf version

I allready had a first contact with Anders Kierulf of smartGo, I will come back to him when the book will be completed
to see what is possible.

While I'm not intending in making any money with this project, that may still be an option to sell the gobook for a few dollar.
That may help SmartGo, an app that I really like, and *IF* I recieve any money with this book, I can then use it to help some "go club" and/or this forum which I really love too.

however my preference will still be to have the book free for every one...

Anyway, that's just a few guess and in french we say that "Il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l'ours avant de l'avoir tué", which translate to "to sell the bear's skin before killing it"
but I think in english it's more " to count one's chickens (before they're hatched)" so once again, I should complete the book first...

That said, if anyone has a preference or idea about the distribution of the book... just let me know...

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While I just said that I don't want to spend my time coding, I just saw there where a bug with the "send book by email" feature and also with the "password reset procedure" of MyOwnGoBook.
As these are main features, I just fixed them

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I'm converting the last problem set... till now, I really followed the layout of the pdf.
but here (and also for the first two problem set also) I think that it would be better to have the problem "one by one"

So instead of having a first page with the four problems, and then a second page with their solutions, I think I will better to have the first problem, then its solution, then the next problem and so on...

This will break my rule to be as close as possible to the pdf, but that would also be more readable on small display I think ...

What do you think of that ? any preference ?

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Wow …

I like your preference of staying as close to the definitive PDF (for reasons of respect towards the original), but I think the CC SA license also gives you the option to change resp. build upon the original, as long as the CC SA license’s requirements are respected. And I think you are a responsible editor, so I’d trust your judgement here

But that’s just me. Adnd Charles Matthews also is a member of this forum, as you know … what about asking for his opinion? I assume he’ll welcome anything that improves readability.

Looking forward to the final product …

Tom

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I'd definitely vote for having the problems one-by-one; having multiple problems per page is an artifact of print publication.

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Well, just took 5 minutes to give you a quick update on this project.

I'm currtently fixing the last details... but one of them took me a lot of time, I'm talking about the page numbers.

I choosed to give a reference to each single diagram, so that I can do a link instead of the page number. that gave me a lot of rework, but I'm finally done with that. I also reworked the problem section so that the problems are now given one after each other.

What is left to do :

• #1 I still need to fix a few diagrams - fortunatlly errors are really easy to spot in the gobook app which display them in red.
  
• #2 Complete all the links
  
• #3 The index of shape at the end of the book (I'm still not usure what would be the best way of doing that for small screen device...)
  
• #4 Still need an image for the diagram on page 70, as the gobook format doesn't allows to draw a line between 2 columns
  
• #5 find a nice cover for the book ? if anyone as some inspiration... that would be welcome but I think we need something without copyright and that would be nice if that image would be ok for charles too of course.

Maybe for later in a v2.0 : translate the book in French

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Thanks for it all.

I once had an artist design a cover for Shape Up! - not the usual go book style at all. I wonder if I can find that.



Someone was working on that. There is discussion on http://go-on.forumactif.com/

very quick update...
Unfortunatly, not that much time to work on that project right now as I just changed of job.
Still planning to complete this project for the end of october this year.

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Converting the book Shape UP! by Charles Matthews/Seong-June Kim
to the gobook format. last updated april 2015 - Index of shapes, p.211 / 216