Ian, For RSI in mouse arm. Did you ever try to use both arms alternatively (by days or hours) ? Balance is a zen way... Use of softwares like Workpace (Windows) or Workrave may be interesting too.
One more time : thanks for your brave work ! Jacques ----- Message d'origine ----- De : "Ian McNulty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : <[email protected]> Envoyé : mercredi 7 mars 2007 14:17 Objet : Re: Migration of Manager Ref PDFs to Wiki Format > Hi Scott, > > Your message arrived at last! Many thanks. > > Yes it was very laborious work. Getting on for a hundred hours in total > if you include finding the right software for the conversion, > researching the extent of the currently existing fragments in the Wiki, > learning the Wiki markup etc. And not great for the RSI in my mouse arm > either. A dirty job, but somebody had to to it ;) > > I really am a bit reluctant to comment any more than I already have on > the current content of the docs. As far as I understand it, they were > written by a professional technical writer (which I certainly am not) > and cost something like $40,000 to produce, so they are of considerable > value as they stand. I treated them as such, and made every effort not > to drop even one single word. > > As for developing them further, I'm afraid this is way out of my league. > Two months after installing OFBiz, I still don't feel confident I know > how to work it myself, let alone teach anybody else. > > I originally started translating the PDFs into editable format with the > aim of re-jigging them into something that I or any of my clients might > be able to use. But after more than a week's work I eventually had to > admit defeat and decided simply to translate them as they stood in the > hope that others might succeed where I had failed. So any further > development of this material really would need to be done by anybody > else except me. > > I appreciate your offer of help in answering any questions I might hav e, > but there are so many that answering them all would probably mean having > to write an entire User's Manual yourself, which would kindof defeat the > purpose of the exercise! > > That said, your thanks are appreciated. I just hope that these docs can > now be developed into something useful and that I have been able to make > some kind of contribution towards the further development of the OFBiz > end-user community. > > Best, > > Ian > > > > Scott Gray wrote: > > Hi Ian > > > > I believe these will eventually end up in the End-User docs section > > that you mention below, but I wouldn't recommend moving them there > > until any major revisions have been completed. > > How do you (and anyone else reading) feel about the current content of > > the docs? If you or anyone else has time to contribute to them > > further then that should take place on the wiki for now, and once any > > efforts to improve them have slowed down, they could then be moved > > over to the OFBENDUSER space to protect the work that has been done. > > I'd be happy to try and answer any questions you might have if you > > decide to work on this further (and I'm sure others would too). > > > > Personally I think you've done a great job migrating the docs and I > > can guess how laborious the task must have been (I gave it a go myself > > at one point). > > > > Thanks > > Scott > > > > Ian McNulty wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I posted news of this a couple of days ago but put it in the General > >> questions thread by mistake, so thought I ought to try again on a new > >> thread. > >> > >> I've now finished migrating the complete set of Undersun Manager > >> Reference PDFs to Wiki format. > >> > >> I couldn't get access to the OFBiz End-User Documentation section so > >> was advised by Jacopo to put them under my Confluence Home page at: > >> > >> http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Manager+References > >> > >> Is this where they should stay, or do they now need be moved into a > >> public section of the Wiki where they can be amended and refined by > >> others as the project develops? > >> > >> Ian > >> > > > >
