[drupal-docs] book module improvements

[Charlie Lowe]

Here's an idea. In a conversation on drupaled.org, Boris mentions 
import/export again (http://www.drupaled.org/node/39#comment-67). I'll 
quote my response which contains what might be an easy way to do it:

"As a first step toward this, I've been wondering why we couldn't use 
the printer-friendly version to do this. It's already exporting a book 
as HTML with the different nodes tagged with the heading id's. Suppose 
that the id tag was kept with the nid of that node, but that the class 
was set to the nid of the parent. Then we would just need to have Drupal 
process a printer-friendly version and pull it back in as either

1) a new book
2) tell Drupal the parent in which to place it
3) tell Drupal to match it up with an existing book, creating new pages 
wherever the user has specified new nid's in the markup that don't exist 
within the existing book."

I personally kind of like this because it's a way of extending a current 
output feature rather than creating a new one. Should be pretty easy to 
tell users how to do just the basic importing and exporting and the 
export is in a very readable format.

I'll add this to our list of ideas.

Charlie



Kieran Lal wrote:
> As someone who is spending a reasonable amount of time documenting I can 
> tell you that writing in the book isn't a lot of fun.  Especially, if 
> it's fixed width.  I'd like to be able to export in the morning, get on 
> the caltrain without a connection, and check it in when I get to work.  
>  Now that would be productive.
> 
> Feel free to export it any acronym you want, as long as I can edit it in 
> a text editor and not a browser I'll be happy.  Bonus point's if I can 
> spell check it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kieran
>