More or less concrete ideas of material that could go into the book
- quick start section similar to the one on fossil's homepage, just a bit more verbose with explanations and links to relevant sections where the actions are explained in more detail
- explanation why fossil is called fossil (from Quotes: "The very name 'fossil' was to chosen to reflect the unchanging nature of things ..."*.)
- section on markup: fossil wiki markup, markdown, plain text (here also mention commands such as
fossil test-markdown) - section on pikchr
- section on skins and the UI CSS
- include explanations from interesting/important forum posts or from post with often asked questions
- comparison with git
- section on the philosophy of fossil and the fundamental design principles
- section on what kind of animals artifacts are
- section on libfossil
- section on the cvs2fossil script and to importing from other systems
- note when a certain feature was added? (such as "the --numstat option to the fossil diff command was added in fossil 2.3")
Ideas on the structure
- key word and command index (as in the current version)
- boxes with „Good to know“ hints
- boxes with „Best practice“
- admonitions for small hints, warnings, „see also …“ and others
Ideas on the layout
- coloured background for CLI text and code
- nice image and/or citation at start of chapter (see Quotes)
- coloured text for certain types of content?
- for HTML version: good navigation on every page!