Re: [Brlcad-users] BRLCAD documentation

[Christopher S. M. <br...@ma...>]

Ahh, heh.  No, it's not the missing Volume I.  Actually that first 
document on the website is all that's left of Volume I that remained 
relevant after the new build system was added and the package was 
released as open source software.  Volume I used to contain lots of 
details about obtaining the package, requesting decryption keys, 
signing and returning agreements, decrypting the package, installing 
the package as well as a general introduction to and overview of 
BRL-CAD.  The intro/overview is all that remains now with the rest of 
the details now being provided by documents in the source distribution 
(like the README, INSTALL, COPYING, HACKING, and AUTHORS files).

Cheers!
Sean

On Aug 24, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Nico De Ranter wrote:

> Ah I see, I got those already, but I thought the documentation
> that came with the source was perhaps the missing Volume I :-).
>
> Nico
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:59:50PM -0400, Christopher Sean Morrison 
> wrote:
>> Nico,
>>
>> Even better are completely rewritten versions of the documentation
>> series available on the website at http://brlcad.org/ under the
>> Documents section.  Those are actually printed volumes that one can
>> purchase through various means as well.  Regardless and in particular,
>> you'll probably be interested in "Introduction to MGED" and 
>> "Principles
>> of Effective Modeling":
>>
>> http://ftp.brlcad.org/VolumeII-Introduction_to_MGED.pdf
>> http://ftp.brlcad.org/VolumeIII-Principles_of_Effective_Modeling.pdf
>>
>> If you really want to re-render the old documents, that can probably 
>> be
>> arranged but the newer documents are considerably more up to date.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:54 AM, Nico De Ranter wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> does anybody have a PDF or PS version of the MGED documentation in 
>>> the
>>> doc directory of brlcad? When I try to compile the documentation 
>>> doing
>>> 'latex all.tex', latex generates a number of errors and the final
>>> version doesn't have the images (using Tetex on Debian Sarge).
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Nico