Re: [Xtrkcad-fork-developers] XTrackCAD wishes

[Martin F. <m_f...@us...>]

On 10.04.2007 William H Lugg wrote:
> Never the less we all owe Martin a debt of gratitude for the work he 
> is putting into keeping this one alive.

My workbench has been gathering dust for months now. But to be honest,
I'm really having fun with the work on XTrkCad.

> Martin, regarding your request for help with help, what kind of 
> support would you be needing?

Well that's basically up to the group. The manual we have at the moment
is basically a reference where you can kookup the specifics of an
operations. That's exactly what's needed for the help system. All that
I'm doing is updating the manual to the changes in the program, removing
references to registration and similar relics of the past and converting
it to Halibut format.

 From then on (probably end of month) work on refining the manual can be
started. These can be things like spell and grammar checking, rewriting
smaller pieces or even wiriting a more task oriented introduction to
XTrkCad. Things like a more complete description of custom management,
come to my mind.

Once I'm finished I'll upload the docs to the website so everybody can
access it with a browser. And then we can start collecting improvements
etc.. I'll start converting the program from classic WinHelp format to
the more current compressed html on the Windows site. I already started
writing a new help text browser for the Linux version that will use HTML
instead of the proprietary format Dave Bullis used.

Does that sound reasonable? What else would you think would be good to do?

Regards
Martin