Hello,

Here is a first draft of the first page of the new version of the tutorial :

http://www.benoitstpierre.info/scid/tutorial/getting-started.html

There is no style, no information in the head except the title, no
navigation, no header, no footer.  All these depend upon the way the
tutorial is to be incorporated into Scid's site, and upon the way the
tutorial will evolve.

This is only the first page.  The links do not work yet, because the
two documents refered, i.e. **Installing Scid** and **Scid for the
Impatient**, are not created yet. The only thing that seems to work is
the image.  (Please note the convention to put Scid's version into the
name of the image : i really like this little trick to keep track of
the software's version of the snapshot.)

This page took some time to create, mostly because I had to think
about the aims of the tutorial.  For example, the index will be moved
to last pages, as in a book.  There should be a colophon.html page to
detail all there is to know about the creation of the tutorial.

More importantly, there shall not be any advanced topics.  Without
saying in what order the lessons will come out (this should emerge
while writing), we could settle for these types of tasks :

+ Simple things you do with games
+ Searching something, anything
+ Managing databases
+ Studying and playing chess

That means that there should be less pages than what was expected at
first.  I don't believe a beginner needs to work with EPD files right
away : I never have, and probably never will.  So that means that
advanced topics would be dealt with in the Help file in Scid.

(The Help file might be more easily maintained when first written on
the website, with corrections encircled with <ins> and <del> markups.
Porting the content of those files into the Help.tcl seems easier than
working the other way around.  And it's faster to propagate the
correction, to boot.)

So feel free to send me directly some comments, corrections, and
questions, be they specific to the page or more generally related to
the tutorial.  Other pages should come soon.

Best regards,

B

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