Re: [Audacity-quality] Important new page in the Manual

[Cliff <fly...@gm...>]

Nice work Peter! I’m sure it will be appreciated.

Cliff

> On Apr 6, 2021, at 09:24, Peter Sampson <pet...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> 
> this morning I have just added an important new page to the Manual
> https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Updating_from_Audacity_2.x_to_Audacity_3.x <https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Updating_from_Audacity_2.x_to_Audacity_3.x#Unitary_Project>
> 
> 
> I recently started musing on the fact that as the 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 is a very short time period, the important information 
> in the What's New in 3.0.0 about updating to UP would be lost to future readers.  I also realized that all the updates 
> from 2.x to 3.x could well take several years (over a decade even possibly_
> 
> So I carved this new page out of the What's New in 3.0.0 (page history is a powerful tool)
> 
> a) I placed a link to it from a small new section in the 3.0.1 What's New:
> https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/New_features_in_this_release#aup <https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/New_features_in_this_release#aup>
> 
> b) then I thought some more and also placed a link to it from the front page:
> https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Main_Page <https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Main_Page>
> In the Installing and updating section - as I realized that some folk will still be
> upgrading to UP from 2.x for many years to come - so for them this will still be
> relevant.
> 
> c) I though further and added links on  these three pages:
> https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Installing_and_updating_Audacity_on_Windows <https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Installing_and_updating_Audacity_on_Windows>
> https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Installing_and_updating_Audacity_on_Mac_OS_X <https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Installing_and_updating_Audacity_on_Mac_OS_X>
> https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Installing_and_updating_Audacity_on_Linux <https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Installing_and_updating_Audacity_on_Linux>
> 
> d) Which in its turn led me to some serious polishing on those pages.
> It always amazes me that when I turn my attention focus to pages that haven't been
> edited for a while I usually find that most of those can be seriously improved with a
> bit of polish.  None of them are really bad before - they can just be shined-up nicely.
> 
> Peter.
> 
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