[kde-doc-english] KSmileTris Handbook

John Hayes justlinux at bellsouth.net
Thu Aug 11 03:46:37 CEST 2005


On Tuesday 09 August 2005 07:51 am, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> Moin,
>
> Philip Rodrigues made me aware of the new KSmiletris manual available at
> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~chri1802/stuff/ksmiletris-index.docbook and I agreed
> to see whether I could improve anything about it. Indeed, I could find
> a few things:
>
> - a bunch of typos and grammar problems were solved
> - entities have been used for 'Ctrl' and 'Tetris'. The latter is marked as
>   a <trademark> for now, I don't know what the exact status is on that.
> Does anybody know?
> - a few words were added which mention that as the leve increases, more
>   tiles are added which makes it more challenging to find fits.
> - key combos are now marked up correctly.
> - I added myself as a reviewer. :-)

I generated a diff from the two files and agree with the changes made to the 
handbook.

>
> Yet, a few things are left:
>
> - I think an <informaltable> is a poor choice for listing the default key
>   bindings. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything about how to mark that
>   up in the KDE DocBook guide, so before I make things even worse I decided
>   to leave things as they are and ask here (a <variablelist> maybe?).
> - The descriptions of the menu entries of the Settings->Pieces menu are
>   quite useless IMHO. I think a screenshot for each menu item would be a
> lot, so that one immediately sees what effect any of those options has. -
> ...there was something else, but I forgot it now and unfortunately I
> spilled coffee over my note. :-(
>
> In any case, you can find the updated manual at
> http://ktown.kde.org/~frerich/ksmiletris-index.docbook
>
> - Frerich

I am not sure what would be a better solution for the key bindings. This was 
my first try on documentation for KDE, so I am not sure where or how it goes 
from here.

John Hayes



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