[Tuxpaint-devel] Tux Paint quickstart guide - draft

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

Tonight I walked myself through all of Tux Paint's main features and
tried to briefly explain them in a simple text file, which I ended up
saving out as Markdown.

It's attached, and I'd love any feedback on it!  I'm thinking I could
PHP + gettext()-ify it, and place it in tuxpaint-docs, and then
generate it like we generate the HTML version of the docs, to allow
translation.

As it's plaintext / markdown, it has no screenshots or images of
any kind, but I did use some Unicode (including some newer emojis)
to try and convey some of the UI (e.g., thumbs-up and -down whenever
I mention the Redo & Undo buttons, respectively).

When I open up this version in Okular on KDE, it looks pretty nice,
and seems to come out to about 5 pages.

For comparison, the English version of the README, as plain text,
opened in Kate and previewed for printing, would come out to about
19 pages (~4x larger).

And the English version of the README in HTML (which admittedly does
include some hints to invoke pagebreaks at each section, and avoid
some widows/orphans), opened in Google Chrome browser and printed,
would come out to 33 page (~6-7x larger).

(All of this printing talk is on a system set up for US Letter,
8.5" x 11", FWIW.)

-- 
-bill!
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