From: Shelagh M. <she...@gm...> - 2011-02-18 12:54:12
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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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Email: she...@gm... Wave: she...@go... BA(Asian Studies) | ANU Grad Dip IST | UOW ---------------------------------------------------------------- |