[kde-doc-english] Re: New User Guide

[Gerry Gavigan]

originally sent this to the wrong place - confirming*

On Sunday 30 May 2004 14:59, you wrote:
> one small thoughts, hopefully useful.  one question One volunteer
>
> Currently this help guide seems to be organised by function (I may have
> missed something)
>
> For example amid the small but growing group of non-expert converts I am
> supporting - they don't know the question to ask and I am not sure they
> would find this guide helpful.  (And like me they don't read anything...)*
>
> Elaborating, one of them couldn't work out how to cut and paste between
> applications - and had no idea that not only was klipper the answer but
> that the little clipboard in the panel was the solution. Once klipper was
> found, its usefulness and superiority became obvious immediately
>
> I wonder therefore if there could be a searchable, light-touch, "How do I?"
> section?
>
> (If anyone thinks that would be a good idea I'll start with "How do I cut
> and paste")
> ---
> 2) A general index can be helpful - does docbook produce one automatically
>
> 3) happy to to do setting up an internet connection  (III, 12) both kppp
> and using a router and contributing to or do (III,13) Email
>
> On Saturday 29 May 2004 17:40, phil.rod at ntlworld.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I'd be keen on helping out. I know nothing about DocBook, but I've
> > > written a lot of training manuals in my time - In a far away past I
> > > used to teach users how to use the "other OS" and it's related
> > > applications
> > >
> > > Where to from here?
> >
> > Thanks for the offer of help! The first thing to do would be to take a
> > look at the outline for the user guide which is at
> > http://users.ox.ac.uk/~chri1802/kde/userguide-tng/ .
> >
> > If there's a section in that outline that you'd like to write, or extend
> > somehow, drop us a line at kde-doc-english at kde.org to say that you'd like
> > to work on it (to make sure we don't have more than one person working on
> > the same thing). If no particular section catches your eye, but there's
> > something else you'd like to write about, feel free to suggest it (to
> > kde-doc-english).
> >
> > Not knowing DocBook is no problem at all: you can write in plain text,
> > and submit your work to kde-doc-english, where someone will pick it up,
> > add the necessary markup, and add it to the user guide.
> >
> > If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Philip Rodrigues
> >
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