Prak_Anima wrote:How, other than cutting the Spells out, did we go from 548 pages in build 99 to 437 pages in build 139 but get an extra 12 pages (plus two lines) by the end of the Magic chapter?
I have no idea how that happened; I have very little time for comprehensive overviews. (In other words, your guess is as good as mine). You might ask Utterfail; he typeset the section. See below.
Prak_Anima wrote:and how's that holding pattern before 0.8 going?
Poorly. I'm working full time, moderating on another board, and about to move cities and change careers. I also don't play D&D hardly at all anymore, and visit this forum rarely, so my mental time given over to it is much less than it used to be. My enthusiasm for this project is dying.
What we need is good fluff/explanation to pad out the SRD material, and then several someones to go through the whole thing and edit for consistency and clarity.
Please note that knowing LaTeX is not required, just helpful - people who can't write can typeset, and vice versa. People who do both, like myself, are in short supply.
Calibre will do fine as an after the fact sort of thing; I'm sure if you wanted an RTF version you could bump LaTeX and it would output that instead of PDF.
Or, get something that displays PDFs as they were meant to be outputted - iPad, for instance.
EDIT: Also,
THIS, specifically K's point about a new edition.
(AKA, why bother? He's right. Either we are happy with the changes that we've made and the Tomes as they stand, or we need a new edition. I realize it's not quite that harsh of a line, and the ideal middle ground would be to get something like Tome 3.25 with backwards compatibility out, but unless more people start working on it, we're not going anywhere).
I started working on this project almost three years ago, for fuck's sake. What has been done in that time? Most of my contributions have been haranguing other people into doing work, and setting up an actual manageable version control system that can be accessed by anyone and passed down as people see fit to take up the reigns. I've added and reorganized things, sure, but it hasn't really gone anywhere.
Our last stable version was almost a year ago. We've been in development hell for a version that was supposed to be "complete" or "whole" for at least that long; I'm almost tempted to call the Tome PDF vaporware at this point. We've essentially punted on shipping a finished version of 0.7; no one's committed code in 6 weeks, and that was all minor edits for shits and giggles.
I dunno, Prak. You tell me how we're doing.
