Dear all
Thanks for all of your work on creating this great software and thanks
to Tom Cato Amundsen for created the software in the first place.
I am a web designer so I provided small fix on the first page of help
document I saw: welcome.html. The patch tries to fix:
* use correct established English. In our web design career wording
in established English helps give visitor positive impression.
e.g. using "information" instead of "info", using "mailing-list"
instead of "mailinglist" or just "list";
* Replace anchor at "Click here" with the right link text. There are
a lot of reasons for this change, see for example:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
I'd like to contribute more such patches if they are welcome. I further
think the documents better be written in the more user-oriented way
because I suspect many of the user are highschool / college students who
are NOT computer science or related majors. Less references to computer
terminologies helps. e.g. I don't think it right to assume user knows
the concept of "mailing list" to the extent that they can be used
without introduction. Maybe it is only me who feel this because in our
web design projects we are "forced" to be audience oriented, thinking
what words visitors wanted to see as much as what we want to say.
Best regards
Zhang Weiwu
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--- solfege-3.14.4/help/C/welcome.html 2009-06-09 18:48:10.000000000 +0800
+++ solfege-3.14.4.touched/help/C/welcome.html 2009-06-14 23:20:15.000000000 +0800
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Welcome to GNU Solfege</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="GNU Solfege 3.14.4 User Manual"><link rel="up" href="appendix-not-documentation.html" title="Appendix B. Not really documentation..."><link rel="prev" href="appendix-not-documentation.html" title="Appendix B. Not really documentation..."></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Welcome to GNU Solfege</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="appendix-not-documentation.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix B. Not really documentation...</th><td width="20%" align="right"> </td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="welcome"></a>Welcome to GNU Solfege</h2></div></div></div><p>Solfege is a <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html"; target="_top">free</a> eartraining
program. The program is
-part of the <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org"; target="_top">GNU Project</a>. Check <a class="xref" href="online-resources.html" title="Online resources">the section called âOnline resourcesâ</a> for info on mailinglists and where to get the
-latest version of Solfege.</p><p>Select a exercise from the menu to start practising, or click
-<a class="ulink" href="index.html" target="_top">here</a> to read the user manual.</p><p>One of the ideas of this program is that you can extend the program
+part of the <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org"; target="_top">GNU Project</a>. Check <a class="xref" href="online-resources.html" title="Online resources">section âOnline resourcesâ</a> for information on mailing-lists and where to get the
+latest version of Solfege.</p><p>Select a exercise from the menu to start practising, or
+<a class="ulink" href="index.html" target="_top">read the user manual</a>.</p><p>One of the ideas of this program is that you can extend the program
without having to dig into the source code. If you want to practise some
special chords or want to practise dictation with some music not included, you
can write lesson files and put them into a
<code class="filename">lessonfiles/</code> subdirectory in your
<code class="filename">$HOME</code> directory. If you create good lesson files, you
-really should consider contributing them by sending them to the mailinglist so
+really should consider contributing them by sending them to the mailing-list so
I can add them to the next version of this program.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="appendix-not-documentation.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="appendix-not-documentation.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> </td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Appendix B. Not really documentation... </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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