Jacques,
Your kind thoughts are much appreciated. You're not the first person to
suggest alternating arms. I've tried it, but I do most of my work in
graphics and video applications where using a mouse is more like using a
pen. Yes, you can do it left handed, but it's not a pretty sight! So
I've just kept on trying to ignore the pain - which is actually
worryingly easy when you're absorbed in what you're doing. It's
reminding yourself to do the exercises that's the difficult bit. Which
is why your suggestions on software are nothing short of brilliant. I
never even guessed such things existed and never thought to look. I'm
downloading Workrave as we speak. What a discovery. I owe you one. Many
thanks.
Best,
Ian
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
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
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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
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