Yes i intend volunteers speaking (or better, writing) English for a collectors team
One easy way of learning is start from al sample/source in various tests directory because each function have a demonstration start learn from sample instead that from documentation is used from most harbour developer subscribe Follow developer mailing list, hbide have a function for find in *.prg ,*.ch in c:\harbour (subdir) and start learn from sample with coloured syntax (find in file from iconbar) the search in mailing list,google,harbour dir is basic tools wich is better tools to create doc having same volunteers speaking (or better, writing) English joining a "collectors team"? 2010/2/16 Pete <[email protected]> > Hi Massimo, > > Sorry for the late reply, i was away. i did download hbide, than you, no > time yet to investigate. > About harbour's documentation i did post a message with my thoughts, > replying to Mr. Czerpak. (unfortunately that reply went wrongly to a new > thread -my fault and my yahoo's mailing client.) > > you say you need "english people" with harbour knowledge to write > documentation. by "english people" i think you mean volunteers speaking (or > better, writing) English, and you are right! > > However, as has already been pointed out, most of the harbour's > documentation is already written and lies into several texts -old and new > ones. If this is true, then the need is not "English writers" but a > small team of "collectors", who will find a way to extract/collect these > pieces of documentation, edit them (in cooperation to core-developers to > avoid mistakes) and to incorporate them into a flexible and easy handled > help system or to put it more "technologically descriptive" we need a "HELP > MACHINE", with an easy to plug "slot", which would attract harbour people to > feed this machine, bringing their contributions (documentation text, > samples, etc.). > > > P.S.: I really wonder, how can the harbour users to make use (without > documentation) of this very developed and so much enriched compiler, as > harbour has already become after all those many additions and enhancements > that have been done by the unbelievable creative developers (czerzpak, > szakats and co.) during last months. I think that very few of users utilize > the total of harbour's capabilities and features, not to mention that this > documentation lack is an 'inhibitory factor' for new users to come, but > maybe i am wrong and it's only me that have difficulty to follow the whole > process. > > regards, > > -- Massimo Belgrano _______________________________________________ Harbour-users mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour-users
