Subject: Re: Abiword help system
From: Paul (paul@nlpagan.net)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 01:05:17 CDT
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Tim LaDuca wrote:
>Paul wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, john wrote:
>>
>> >I am setting up a learning center for absolute newbies. Would like to
>> >let them use
>> >Abiword. But since I cannot find any help or tutorials in release that I
>>
>> Idea 1 (the HTML solution):
>> Idea 2 (Plain text):
>
>OK, I'm confused, I thought I repled to this message bought I have no record
>of it anymore.
Perhaps that was only on the dev-list? I have never seen a reply to this.
>So here goes again.
>
>I would love to work on something like this, I thinkit's right up my alley,
>it will give me something to do with Abiword while I'm learning about coding.
>
>Problems:
>
>1) AbiWord features are constantly changing so which version should
>I document? Or do I just go with what's there noe and change it on the fly?
I think that things like the FILE menu, EDIT menu and most of the OPTIONS
will stick. There's no need to change something for the coders when it is
not broken. Since the help will be mainly for newbies, there's no direct
need to do something with advanced features (which will be changed/added
most, imo).
>2) I like images! Can there be too many images?
As long as they're not 1 meg a piece, that would be fine!
>3) I will probably have next to no time to give come fall semster(we'll see).
Sounds like another time-problem. Who hasn't these days? ;)
>Can't think of any other problems right now, I like the hyperlinked HTML idea
>though. Then there's the ever important help doc created as a .ABW file!
Could be the same kind of text as the HTML-idea, or a sort of
digest-version.
>what, oh well. Any feedback on the subject is much appreciated.
Well, here you are!
Paul
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