Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden Manual

[Shelagh M. <she...@gm...>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:35:39 -0500
"D. Michael McIntyre" <mic...@ro...> wrote:

> On Sunday, February 13, 2011, Detlef Schütz wrote:
> 
> > By the way: there seems to be an old manual written in 2005. Is this
> > manual near enough to the actual program?
> 
> It may still be useful if you can get it cheap, but it is out of
> date.  I wrote that just as Rosegarden 1.0 was coming out, and a
> great deal has changed since then.
> 
> Unfortunately, there is no easy way to put together a print version
> of our current documentation.  We have moved all of it to a wiki now,
> in order to make it easier to maintain, and easier for people to help
> with writing documentation, but this has made it more difficult to
> produce PDF files.
> 
> The documentation is not in the best of shape either, I fear.  I used
> to be the documentation writer, and that was my only responsibility.
> Now I manage the entire project, and do a lot of the development.
> Documentation has fallen way down on my list of priorities, and I
> don't have much time to be involved with keeping it up to date.  We
> have help from several people who have taken up some of my slack in
> this area, but the job is very large, and our documentation is always
> the last thing to get done.
Michael,

I remembered something from when I had a docuwiki set up as a
collaborative website for a course I did. You can export dokuwiki pages
to pdf with a plugin called bookcreator.
http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:bookcreator

Perhaps this might be a solution to people asking for a downloadable
manual? I could look into how it works and see if it might be a
suitable candidate for publishing the wiki to a pdf. 

Shelagh

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