From: Shelagh M. <she...@gm...> - 2008-09-06 02:23:03
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 22:52:58 -0400 "D. Michael McIntyre" <ros...@gm...> wrote: > On Thursday 04 September 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote: > > Oh no. I just am familiar with how to do the wiki. But you are > > right a proper tutorial in html with nice pictures is what I'm > > after. If you would send me your nice template I will do it with > > that. > > svn co > https://rosegarden.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/rosegarden/branches/tutorials-site > > That's what I work from, though I'm not sure if you will be able to > publish your own stuff. I've never had anyone working with me on > this stuff before. I may have to go grant you shell access or > something to get bin/sync to work for you. (It rsyncs the local tree > against the public web server. You have to publish changes in a > separate step from committing them, because I haven't bothered to set > up something to keep that site in sync with SVN automatically. I'm > sure it's possible, but I haven't really tried.) > > To start a new one... > > Well, it depends on how you want to do this. The entire page has my > name all over it, doesn't it? Well, just live with that for now if > you can, and I'll think about how to rearrange all of this a bit > later. (Probably just add your name at the top level, and leave it > up to individual attribution in the linked tutorials under the main > page. Unlike certain other projects, I'm not going to dump anybody > into "and others.") > > Just stick it in supplemental/ for now, with my other ones, and that > might even be where it winds up, since this follows the general idea > of my newest line of tutorials. (Filling in the gaps left by my > increasingly obsolete book. Which appears to have been remaindered > now, and won't be on the market much longer.) > > The way this is supposed to work is you untar template.tar.bz2 and > then rename template/ to your new tutorial. I seem to remember > having problems with that, but it looks like maybe I fixed them. (If > you have trouble, we'll sort it out, and get this off the ground.) > > I use the data/ directory for things like the source .mid file, > public domain things I've ripped off from places like Mutopia, etc., > and the pixmaps/ directory for screenshots. I've tried different > schemes, and going with a simple 01.jpg 02.jpg 03.jpg seems to be the > least hassle in terms of interrupting my workflow to go deal with a > screenshot. > > I usually put all the pictures smack up the middle, though sometimes > I play with left, center, right or whatever. > > I suck at HTML, and I wish I could make myself care, because there > are actual jobs out there for web designers and stuff. It's just > that every time I try to plod through that stuff, I think if the > texts are this boring, how boring is the job? Do I really want to be > writing stylesheets, or am I happier changing tires (tyres)? Right. > Whitewalls in or out? > > > I suppose the best way would be to cook it at home and upload it > > when finished? > > I usually try to preview it locally before I publish it, but you can > fix it easily at any time with bin/sync, so it's no big deal. > > Actually, I just looked at that, and no, no matter what, bin/sync > won't work for you, because it's hard coded for me. > > Well, that's up to you. We can change that if you want, or you can > depend on me to publish stuff after you've committed it to the > repository. > > Oh yeah, right, you'll have to add the files before you can commit > them. Something like: > > cd tutorial/supplemental/ > tar xjf template.tar.bz2 > mv template my-cool-new-tutorial > [go edit stuff and come back to this directory] > svn add my-cool-new-tutorial > svn commit > > After the first add, you'll have to add things like this: > > svn add my-cool-new-tutorial/pixmaps/* > svn add my-cool-new-tutorial/data/* > svn commit > > That's it in a nutshell. I'm a bit rushed right now, and I may have > missed something. I'll definitely be around to help, don't worry > about that! > Ok, now that I've checked out the tutorials site and untarred the template folder, I have a better idea of what you mean. I must be a concrete thinker, I have to see/do things before I understand the instructions. I am happy to have you publish it after I commit it. Now I have to polish off my "html for Idiots" guide I picked up in a garage sale. Should be fun! Its all that modern css stuff that I can't get my head around. But then again, if I *do* it I'll probably find it easier than I think. Do you think that now I've actually written some stuff for the manual and not just proofed it, that I should have my name on the list of authors? Shelagh -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jabber: she...@gm... ---------------------------------------------------------------- |