9 Mar
2011
9 Mar
'11
8:24 p.m.
1. Does anybody know where we can grab the old KDE3 web site? Hopefully all of that info
is archived somewhere and can be migrated to the Trinity web site?
2. The current KDE web site has a nice intro to the desktop environment
(http://userbase.kde.org/). All content is licensed under Creative Commons License SA 3.0
and the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. We could save time my imitating most of the
overall structure.
3. I have copies of two KDE3 user guides in PDF. One is from OpenSuse 11.0 and the other
from the Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme. Lots of good info in both. There
likely are some other guides that we can use. Please let me know.
4. I found the following:
http://userbase.kde.org/How_To_Convert_a_UserBase_Manual_to_Docbook. Currently this stuff
makes my eyes water --- all Greek to me at the moment. :)
Darrell
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Darrell Anderson
<humanreadable(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: [trinity-devel] Trinity End-User Documentation
To: trinity-devel(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 12:42 PM
I have close to 3 decades technical
writing experience. Naturally, I have an interest in any
documentation packaged with Trinity. :)
The Help files need serious attention. In KDE 3.5.10 many
Help files are out-of-date. Eventually we have to update
those Help files.
I don't know how the original Help files were maintained or
created. I need help and direction with that.
I want to see an overall user guide to Trinity. The guide
would be available in two forms: HTML and PDF. The HTML
version would be a desktop shortcut available to all users
who first install Trinity and should be a menu option for
those who delete the shortcut.
I am willing to lead this part of the project. I face an
immediate challenge: my background is overwhelmingly with
paper products and not electronic. I need help and advice
with the tools I need to learn to produce two different
outputs (HTML and PDF). OpenOffice Writer (now LibreOffice)
might be a choice, but I suspect the HTML output will leave
much to be desired. Some sort of structured authoring
front-end would makes sense (DocBook?), but that means a lot
of sweat equity to massage the back end formatting. The
system used to produce the original Help files might be a
solution.
I am open to ideas and discussion.
Darrell
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