Dear Michael,
your support would be highly appreciated!
As you correctly pointed out our usermanual needs a lot of polishing :)
There are different ways you could apply your changes. The easiest one
is probably an account at github.com. From there you could take a
private copy of the complete darktable source tree including our manual
sources. You could do your additions in your private part and - as soon
as you have some stuff ready - you would generate a "pull request" and
some of the developers could review and merge into the public sources.
This requires a little bit of git knowledge.
If you don't feel comfortable with this approach, please let us know. We
will certainly find a way to make it easy for you to contribute.
Best wishes
Ulrich
Am 07.01.2013 15:37, schrieb Michael Wiseman:
> What a fine product this is -- thank you and congratulations!
>
> I would be happy to contribute to your efforts by polishing the English
> in your User Manual -- at no cost, naturally. I am an English native
> speaker, and consultant in the use of English. The Manual contains some
> grammatical errors ("Recent used collections", for example, should be
> "Recently used collections", "change history stack" should be "change
> the history stack"; there are many commas where periods should be);
> numerous clumsy, unidiomatic phrases ("This panel allows to manipulate
> development" is so strange that I'm not sure what it means, and
> understand only after reading on. "Prompt a dialog box to allow you to
> select a .xmp file": "Select an .xmp file" is probably enough, though
> you could write "Select an .xmp file via a dialog"); many typos
> ("remebering").
>
> Example: "Remove the selected images from the darktable databse. Those
> images will not be shown in lighttable anymore." The natural, idiomatic
> version would be: "Remove the selected images from the darktable
> datab*/a/*se. Th*/e/*se images will */no longer appear/* in lighttable."
> This may seem trivial, but taken overall such foreign phraseology makes
> the text unnecessarily difficult to read.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dr Michael Wiseman
>
>
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