On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:28 +, Stuart Buchanan wrote:
The main thrust of your proposal is to change the current process,
which can broadly be described as:
Latex - PDF/HTML
to one where you have
Wiki - HTML
AFAICT , we gain:
- easier editing for those not familiar with Latex
-
Hi Jorg,
Firstly, apologies for being so late to comment. Too many other
things going on, and not enough time to think about and comment
properly.
The main thrust of your proposal is to change the current process,
which can broadly be described as:
Latex - PDF/HTML
to one where you have
Wiki
Hi Stuart, thanks a lot for taking the time to write such an elaborate
statement !
Stuart Buchanan wrote:
At present this is handled by changes being emailed to Martin or
myself [...]
or via merge request on Gitorious ;-)
Cheers,
Martin.
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I was surprised that this shift in Paradigms has such a big handicap to
be considered for future developments. And if you believe you are
old-fashioned, how about a 70 year old guy that started in Computer
Development in 1970, and whose big boss predicted: I think there is a
world market for maybe
Jörg Emmerich wrote:
Did you notice that most products you buy today, do not have a real
User-Manual any more - but tell you an Internet-Address to look it up?
Yup, that's really bad style and I still haven't given up the hope that
FlightGear is capable of doing better. Who knows
Guess
Am 21.02.12 01:16, schrieb HB-GRAL:
i.e. in first section Installation:
http://www.flightgear.org/cvs.html
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig/apasim.html
http://www.flightgear.org/cdrom/
http://www.terragear.org/
http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft/index.shtml (huh!)
I
HB-GRAL wrote:
What is the difference between the Index and the Index at bottom of
contents ? ;-)
I'm not sure which index you mean by the Index which is not at the
bottom will check. Anyhow, I know there are at least two
different Indexes and I haven't determined how to get rid of the
Gijs de Rooy wrote:
Martin wrote:
http://mapserver.flightgear.org/getstart/
I'm sure there's a link somewhere on The Wiki (if Hellosimon
didn't carry out his threat of moving it into the attic ;-)
It's right there, on the MAIN PAGE of the wiki! :D
HB-GRAL wrote:
Ok, to follow this I checked all links manually tonight, hope this helps
to correct all 404 or outdated ones in the manual when someone finds the
time for this :
Cool ! phew, quite a lot,
Martin.
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Am 21.02.12 17:41, schrieb HB-GRAL:
Am 21.02.12 01:16, schrieb HB-GRAL:
i.e. in first section Installation:
http://www.flightgear.org/cvs.html
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig/apasim.html
http://www.flightgear.org/cdrom/
http://www.terragear.org/
Congratulation to all of you having worked hard on getting the 2.6 out.
So pls let me come back to my proposal for a different style of the
FGFS-Manual.
For several month now I made many tests with LaTeX, LyX, basic PDF, etc.
- but was not able to achieve with those what I am proposing:
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Why do i feel that this has been discussed multiple times before and
the end result was to stick with the status quo... but anyway see
below.
Below I'm playing devils advocate a little bit.
On 20 February 2012 20:17, Jörg Emmerich j-emmer...@online.de wrote:
Congratulation to all of you having
As we accept that any professional can
participate in the design, we should also trust our users to generate
and maintain their manuals by themselves! FGFS, FGFS-wiki, Wikipedia,
Linux, etc. etc. -- they all proved that it works!
Here's an actual user commenting on the state of the Wiki:
Am 20.02.12 11:49, schrieb thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi:
It seems you still don't understand what LaTeX is for. You can easily turn
LaTeX into both html and a printed book automatically - but you can't ever
turn html back into anything resembling a printed book withd ecent layout
without tons of
HB-GRAL wrote:
What tools can be used to convert i.E. getstart.tex into html properly ?
What can you recommend? Did you ever try to convert FG .tex files into
html with tools you know ?
Actually we're doing this for almost a decade now. Michael Basler
started using TeX4ht on Windows and
Am 20.02.12 12:24, schrieb Martin Spott:
HB-GRAL wrote:
What tools can be used to convert i.E. getstart.tex into html properly ?
What can you recommend? Did you ever try to convert FG .tex files into
html with tools you know ?
Actually we're doing this for almost a decade now. Michael
Martin wrote:
http://mapserver.flightgear.org/getstart/
I'm sure there's a link somewhere on The Wiki (if Hellosimon
didn't carry out his threat of moving it into the attic ;-)
It's right there, on the MAIN PAGE of the wiki! :D
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Main_Page
Am 20.02.12 19:10, schrieb Gijs de Rooy:
Martin wrote:
http://mapserver.flightgear.org/getstart/
I'm sure there's a link somewhere on The Wiki (if Hellosimon
didn't carry out his threat of moving it into the attic ;-)
It's right there, on the MAIN PAGE of the wiki! :D
Yves wrote:
The wiki links to a two years old manual ?
Not anymore :D
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Am 20.02.12 12:24, schrieb Martin Spott:
http://mapserver.flightgear.org/getstart/
Hi Martin
What is the difference between the Index and the Index at bottom of
contents ? ;-)
Maybe there is a simple tool to check all links in the document? A lot
of links goes to nowhere.
i.e. in
Am 20.02.12 22:46, schrieb HB-GRAL:
Am 20.02.12 12:24, schrieb Martin Spott:
http://mapserver.flightgear.org/getstart/
Hi Martin
What is the difference between the Index and the Index at bottom of
contents ? ;-)
Maybe there is a simple tool to check all links in the document? A lot
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