Re: [Flightgear-devel] Update to the Gettng Started guide

[Martin Spott]

Hello Stuart,

"Buchanan, Stuart" wrote:

> I have now integrated this into a patch for the
> Getting Started Guide. The changes are as follows.
[...]
> George - you mentioned you're working on some updates
> to this guide - we should touch base to see if I can
> help out.

I welcome your contribution very much, it is definitely a valuable
addition to the manual. I'd say the by far most secure way to avoid
duplication is to announce and/or post changes to the manual on this
list. This enables us/me to keep the CVS tree current for _everyone_
who's interested. Some of George's additions alread took this way into
the 'official' LaTeX source tree.
If you simply do changes to existing LaTeX files I'd prefer to recieve
unified diffs against current CVS - this makes it easier for me to spot
the actual changes.

You can send large directly to me to avoid congesting the mailing list
or - as you did - post an URL from where I can pick them.

Thanks,
Martin.
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[Flightgear-devel] Update to the Gettng Started guide

[Buchanan, Stuart]

Hi All,

You may remember I wrote a cross-country flight
tutorial a couple of weeks back.  Many thanks for all
the corrections - they made a huge difference.

I have now integrated this into a patch for the
Getting Started Guide. The changes are as follows.

- Create a section III - Tutorials
- Split the existing tutorial information into
FlightGear and non-FlightGear.
- Add a link to Eric's tutorial
- Add the cross-country tutorial as a new chapter
- Update the title page with datestamp code, reference
to updates for 0.9.8 (should this be 0.9.9?), and my
name as a contributor (OK, this is a bit forthright,
but I have added a new chapter :) )

A PDF version is available here:

http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/getstart/getstart.pdf

A tarball of the changed files (for
docs/getstart/source) is available here:

http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/getstart/getstart.tar.gz

There was an issue about sectional figures. The
sectionals included in the tarball were taken from
aviationtoolbox.org. I've had a look on the NACO
website, and sectionals are not copyrighted, so I
think it is OK to include them. However, if someone
with more GNUowledge than me thinks this is too risky,
let me know and I'll remove them completely (it'll
also save including the 15MB .EPS file!)

On a more general note, I'd like to help out more with
documentation but don't want to duplicate any work
other people are doing, or step on other peoples toes.

George - you mentioned you're working on some updates
to this guide - we should touch base to see if I can
help out.

Comments and suggestions are of course welcome.

Regards,

Stuart Buchanan



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