On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 21:21 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Is there any user-level (not developer-level) documentation for > xprint? I do not think so. Otherwise poster John Francis Lee would > not have had so many problems (unanswered on this list, for many > months) printing Thai. People on the list could at least have > said: RTFM! But there is no FM. >
All that's really available is the FAQ, http://xprint.mozdev.org/docs/Xprint_FAQ.html Other docs are listed at http://xprint.mozdev.org/docs/, including links to HP's docs, but I suspect they won't be directly useful for John's problem. > I think the user manual should be written before any coding is > done. Many authorities in software engineering think so also: > Yes, not a bad idea. Unfortunately it's a tricky exercise for us to do. Roland seems to be the only one with a broad and deep enough understanding of what Xprint is doing internally to be able to do it correctly. > It is late in the day, but maybe user-level docs can still be > produced for xprint. I am very willing to lend a hand. Problem is, > I am just a user, and I simply do not understand all this ddx and > ppd stuff. Yes, I'm frustrated by not being much more than a user too, as far as Xprint is concerned, albeit one that's had the opportunity to get Xprint integrated into Debian. Maybe you could start by consider the FAQ as the "user docs". Which parts of the FAQ would need to be altered to be more useful for users? Drew _______________________________________________ Xprint mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/xprint
