[Gramps-devel] Documentation

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Hello everyone,

As Don A. mentioned, I have been working with the documentation
integration (installing, conversion from SGML->??? etc.) but no one is
really working on the documents themselves.  The enthusiasm and ideas
expressed by Rikke, Kevin, James, and Robert over the past week are most
welcome.  With these multiple offers to write documentation, I think we
need some "organization" to avoid duplication of effort. I guess my
position makes me a de-facto guide/overlord/whatever to the documentation
at-large.  So, here is what I propose:
If you are still interested in writing something, send me an email to the 
effect of "I would like to starting writing about general genealogy 
practices." and I'll note it.  If someone else is already working on that, 
I'll let you know and we'll work something out.  I don't want to turn any 
offers away, I just want to make sure Joe and Mary aren't writing the same 
intro. :-)

As a side note, even though the gramps documentation is in SGML, you 
really don't need to be an SGML whiz to write.  The rudimentary markup is 
trivial, and you can get the gist from the existing documentation.  If you 
are truly averse to writing/learning SGML, but enthusiastic about 
conveying information, then simple ascii text files will be accepted, and 
markup can be added later.

Thanks again, 
-Don
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Donald A. Peterson       | dpe...@en...
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Dept. of Chemistry       | PH:  (541) 737-7079
Oregon St. University    | FAX: (541) 737-0480
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