Dia is a very useful tool. Thanks for everything! Thank you, -Alex Goretoy http://launchpad.net/~a1g
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Thomas HARDING <[email protected]>wrote: > On 30/01/2014 20:39, Slavko wrote: > >> >> My description was verbose with the demonstration at once. It was very >> simple, e.g.: >> >> + take look into shape lists and select appropriate one >> + click on shape and click to workplace to add it >> + select proper line type >> + find the connection point (by change the shape color) >> + select text tool >> + add descriptive name >> + here you can enable snap to grid >> + snapping is as this >> + etc >> > > My students are lazy to read anything (except the facebook ;-) ), they >> have a problem to understand the written description at all. Not, they >> have not a mental problems (i am not sure with this English term), >> but they are modern young people (cca 17-18 years old)... >> >> [I should improve my English too] > <g> > Maybe you could upload that description with (localized) captures on > Facebook, or, incredibly more fun, by authoring a video (with beer and > pizza) you'll upload tu Youtube -- screen recording sucks, but if you has > an old 14" cathodic monitor and, more, you film yourself handi webcam /with > bearb/, that could rocks ;) > </g> > > I am not sure now, is somewhere the tutorial in "Get started" style? >> > No, at least in furbished manuals not in the training course step by step > way. > > Actually there is the Dia manual, Chapter 2, entitled "Quickstart" (Dia > manual is on "help button"), where Chapter 5 would be more relevant to > actually quickstart the sketch itself. > > Unfortunately Chapter 2 is mostly a text synopsis (1 capture only?), > notably linked back once to another section. Also the Manual nodes are > sliced to subsections level and that breaks too much the reading flow on > most section: sometimes nodes are shorter than that paragraph -- while some > nodes would be /really/ too verbose once section level sliced. > > That is easily tunable on xsl transformation (from Dia sources) as it is > Docbook (I don't remain if done a switch in the Makefile, but I remain > Docbook version is 4/xml, so the light combination "xmllint/xsltproc" > programs will do the drill -- V5 has only xsl shema and xsltproc would fail > to valid). > > Even not fluent in English, don't use the Dia manual/Polish version at all > as it is really outdated. Even English version has been last revised 2011. > > BTW it is really simple to technically author/compile that bloody doc for > years. It just need authors :p > > Best Regards, > Thomas HARDING > > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > >
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