I fully agree. FAQ really should be slim in order to reduce the double
effort when updating.
I think the best solution is that the FAQ give a short intro into the
topic, very general. And provide a link to the actual documentation.

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Günther Bosch
+43 680 3392124

On 21 November 2016 at 17:20, Dr Rainer Woitok <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> since about mid of August  Wolfgang has collected  a wealth of informat-
> ion, tips, tricks regarding QMapShack  and put it into the various "Doc-
> Faq*.md" files.
>
> But is the FAQ the right place for ANY kind of information?   I mean, we
> could put everything into the FAQ: how to download QMapShack, how to in-
> stall it, how to report a bug, how to write documentation.   But I don't
> think that's what a FAQ is made for.  The four topics mentioned just ab-
> ove clearly should go  into the regular documentation,  and in fact they
> do, as far as the QMapShack documentation is concerned.
>
> To explain more precisely what I'm up to let's take file "DocFaqHandling
> .md" as an example:  the various tricks to find distances between points
> probably belong in the FAQ (even though I think QMapShack should provide
> an easy to use  tool to measure  the distance between  two points rather
> than requiring creation, projection, and deletion of a waypoint) whereas
> information about selecting a range within a track should -- in my opin-
> ion -- be contained in file "DocGisItemsTrk2.md",  where most users most
> probably would expect it anyway.
>
> And keeping this information in one place would also save us from having
> to more or less duplicate plenty of screen shots  (which sooner or later
> have to be updated).
>
> What do others think?
>
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer
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