Re: Let's write an English manual for The Bat! that is suitable for printing
Hello Peter, This is what you said on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:35:48 +0100 your time: Shouldn't Ritlabs produce manuals for their software? At first I was going to say I 100% agree, but then I thought about it some more and decided that I didn't 100% agree after all. I find it odd that users need to produce manuals for a commercial software product. Yes, me too! However, the difference is that the manual that users are proposing to produce here is a printable manual, not an electronic manual for viewing/reading on a monitor. Freeware/open source, yes; payware, no. Indeed, TB! isn't OS software, as you say, but it does come with a manual. Okay, TB!'s manual hasn't always been the best, and over the many years I have been using TB! the manual has received much criticism from users, but that's something else entirely...another topic. It seems to me that the manual being discussed here is a 'printable manual', which is something entirely different to an electronic manual supplied with the software...as TB! has one of those. User's getting together to produce a 'free' (I would hope) 'print ready' manual for TB! is a project that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the authors of TB! Many software vendors charge extra for printed versions of their manuals, granted, but not all vendors actually provide printed or printable versions of their manuals. This usually opens up the doors for third parties to make a bit of money, and as we all know the manual writing business is rather lucrative. So if TB! users want to get it together and produce a completely _free_ comprehensive, exhaustive, print ready manual for other TB! users then I fully support the project. Well, as long as it is organised properly, and the finished product can be thoroughly checked for errors and validated by other 'expert users'. -- Simon (Privateofcourse) #19341. We Hnd Owes Giro? ¶ TB! 4.0.38 WinXP Pro Service Pack 3 Current version is 4.0.38.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Let's write an English manual for The Bat! that is suitable for printing
With the right software any manual you can look at can be printed It may not be your taste but it will print. Indeed, TB! isn't OS software, as you say, but it does come with a manual. Okay, TB!'s manual hasn't always been the best, and over the many years I have been using TB! the manual has received much criticism from users, but that's something else entirely...another topic. From the very begin I seem to remember I printed it out... Ok, on a mainframe...(g) on a laser printer... It seems to me that the manual being discussed here is a 'printable manual', which is something entirely different to an electronic manual supplied with the software...as TB! has one of those. User's getting together to produce a 'free' (I would hope) 'print ready' manual for TB! is a project that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the authors of TB! If you use a help file as starter it likely will have something to do with them. Many software vendors charge extra for printed versions of their manuals, granted, but not all vendors actually provide printed or printable versions of their manuals. This usually opens up the doors for third parties to make a bit of money, and as we all know the manual writing business is rather lucrative. It can be but not if you have to fix up whatever someone doesn't likes... What surprises me is that the moderators who know about the product as their names are on the website haven't bothered to interfere... -- with greetings, tracer Current version is 4.0.38.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Browser hogs focus
Good afternoon Munango-Keewati, It was foretold that on 01/12/2008 @ 22:27:04 GMT-0600 (which was 02:27:04 where I live) Munango-Keewati would write: Is there a way to control the browser activity when one clicks on a url link in an email message in TB? I would prefer the link to open in the browser in the background, without hogging the focus and preventing me from doing other things in TB while it opens. No. Reasons why and workarounds can be find here: http://www.mail-archive.com/tbudl@thebat.dutaint.com/msg97254.html -- Best regards, Luc http://www.dzinelabs.com --- Using the best e-mail client: The Bat! version 4.0.18 with Windows XP (build 2600), version 5.1 Service Pack 2 and using the best browser: Opera. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. - Groucho Marx (1895-1977) - US comedian Current version is 4.0.38.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
