Hi Dirk,
Hi all,
we must discuss what to do with the user manual.
I think Philip has done a good job maintaining the
manual until he left for a limited time and I would have
a bad feeling if we do something dramatic with it.
I would suggest to :
- keep current format
- include new chapters (JS calendar, searching, foreign keys,..)
- carefully add corrections where needed
For me that's ok.
Then I'd like to propose (in the long term) docbook or a similar standard, to obtain docs + a documentation sistem that:
That way we could keep it up to date and offer Philip to
take responsibility for it again, still using the format he
has chosen. If he's back, we can surely discuss if another
format would be better for the project, but better let's do this discussion not when he's away.
- uses a markup structure
- can be handled by a simple text editor ;^) and a CVS system
- can produce html files subdivided by chapters
Time ago I read that the OpenOffice developer build 643 can export documents in PDF and docbook format (the writer module).
I tried it but every time I used the PDF export function (I didn't see the docbook voice) the application crashed ... 8^(
So I'm waiting the official build.
Anyway, for Win32 platforms, to get PDF files from MS Word or OpenOffice or any application that can print documents, you could use this GPL tool:
pdfcreator
http://sector7g.wurzel6-webdesign.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm
I tried it with MS Word and OpenOffice 1.0.1 and it works great !
[KOffice should export in PDF, too]
Luca
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