Carl Lowenstein wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Apr 9, 2006 4:44 PM > Subject: Re: gnumeric > To: Friendly list for people new to Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 4/9/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 4/9/06, Rich Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Carl Lowenstein wrote: >>> >>>> I am a gnumeric gnubie. >>>> >>>> It would be nice to read some tutorial information about it, but I >>>> discover that the official site >>>> < http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/doc/chapter-quick-start.html > >>>> has some HTML screwups such that all the examples of Section 3.4 >>>> "Using Commands" point to unreadable places on the web site. Places >>>> named ".html" instead of whatever their real name should be. Maybe >>>> other problems too, but that is as far as I got. >>>> >>>> Anywhere else to go to learn? My patience with treating computer >>>> utilities as "games to be learned by playing them" wears very thin >>>> very quickly. I discover by looking at some files on my system that >>>> the situation has not improved since I last tried, a year ago, to >>>> understand Gnumeric. >>> Is this the bad one, or something better? >>> >>> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/doc/chapter-quick-start.html >> That's the bad one. Try clicking on Section 3.4, and then Section 3.4.1. >> >> "You don't have permission to access /projects/gnumeric/doc/.html on >> this server." >> >> The link that ought to point to the text for Section 3.4.1 is effectivly >> null. >> Also for 3.4.2 3.4.3 3.4.4. >> >> At that point I gave up trying to read from the web site, a year ago. >> And also today. I just used wget to download an excess of stuff from >> www.gnome.org. I thought I had asked for the "gnumeric/doc" part, >> which turns out to be about 15.5 MB, but I got another 80MB of other >> stuff too. Now I have a copy of the html that I can edit, and will >> see if the fix is obvious. > > This has graduated beyond a "newbie" question. Some find | grep > processing on the .html source has turned up the fact that there are > 26 pages that have not been written, and are just stubbed off. This > isn't very good for a reference manual. Possibly some of these > sections do actually exist, but nobody put in the links to them. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat non_sections > Section 3.4.1 "Using Menu Commands" > Section 3.4.2 "Using Toolbar Button Commands" > Section 3.4.3 "Using Context Menu Commands" > Section 3.4.4 "Using Keyboard Shortcut Commands" > Section 3.5.1 "The Types of Data in a Spreadsheet" > Section 3.5.2 "Putting Data into the Spreadsheet" > Section 3.8.1 "Moving Cell Contents" > Section 3.8.2 "Inserting and Deleting Cells" > Section 4.5.1 "Current Cell Indicator" > Section 4.5.2 "The Cancel Button" > Section 4.5.3 "The Confirm Button" > Section 4.5.4 "The Equals Button" > Section 4.6.2 "The Scrollbars" > Section 4.6.3 "The Tabbed Sheet Indicator" > Section 4.7.1 "The Menu Hint Area" > Section 4.7.2 "The File Status Indicator" > Section 4.7.3 "The Running Calculation Area" > Section 6.3.1 "Using the Tool" > Section 6.3.2 "Results" > Section 6.3.3 "Desired Value in a Given Range" > Section 6.4.1 "Introduction to Linear Programming" > Section 6.4.2 "Spreadsheet Modeling" > Section 6.4.3 "Using Solver" > Section 6.4.4 "Solver Reports" > Section 6.4.5 "Integer Programming" > Section 10.3.2 "Toolbar" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ >
Belated news on this front -- see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337862 and http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
