On Monday 21 August 2006 8:27 am, Chris Cannam wrote: > Ah, I didn't see that. > > I do think your English is perfectly good enough for the handbook, though > if Michael's happy to do the polishing and integration that's fine with me.
I am in this one instance, but I generally think we do need to move to a WTFM policy. You write the feature, you understand the feature better than anybody, so go write or rewrite the manual bits describing it as part of the process of introducing the feature. Something is better than nothing, and if our manual is slightly disjointed as a consequence, then we're in good company. It's easier to edit existing material a little than to sit down and produce it from scratch, and nobody wants to take the manual job full time, including me. In this particular situation, I guess I've done about the best job I care to do translating his list of salient points into the language of the manual, and my previous request was a poorly expressed suggestion that he might want to go tweak it up to his own satisfaction, if he did not find that I had done a good enough job, which he apparently hasn't. I was going for "adequate" on that. After spending a little time doing some reading through dictionaries, I see the word "adequate" and its natural Spanish translation "adecuado" really leave the door open to read more meaning into that term than I intended. It was a poor word choice. What I meant by "adequate" was more along the lines of "at least better than nothing, if not necessarily completely satisfying." I'd say I've done an adequate job by that measure, and it's about all the docbook wrangling I've got in me at this stage, coming to grips with the onset of autumn, and the limbo I'm still in caught in this weird space between the end of one career and the beginning of another. I really hate writing documentation in a markup language. That's why I didn't write any of my own stuff in a markup language. -- D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list Rosegarden-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
