Subject: Re: Abiword help system
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 21:52:54 CDT
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Tim LaDuca wrote:
> Paul wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, john wrote:
> >
> > >I am setting up a learning center for absolute newbies. Would like to
> > >let them use
> > >Abiword. But since I cannot find any help or tutorials in release that I
> > >have, I
> > >don't think we can use Abiword.
> > >Can someone suggest a way for people to learn Abiword?
> > >tia
> > >John
> >
> > I think that this is indeed something that needs attention. It could be a
> > joined effort of people on the list here that already have some knowledge
> > about AbiWord to put together some kind of user-reference. Perhaps even in
> > a way that it is hooked together finally as a hypertext/website thing?
> > Anyone want to join in with this? I can't spare a lot of time on this at
> > the moment, but I would be game to set something up.
> >
> > Idea 1 (the HTML solution):
> >
> > Page 1: shows the top menu.
> > Click an option on the "menu", which takes you to a new page where the
> > clicked menu entry is explained.
> >
> > Idea 2 (Plain text):
> >
> > A walkthrough of writing a document, entirely written in AbiWord.
> >
> > Any givers, takers?
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
> OK, I'm confused, I thought I repled to this message bought I have no record
> of it anymore.
>
> So here goes again.
>
> I would love to work on something like this, I thinkit's right up my alley,
> it will give me something to do with Abiword while I'm learning about coding.
>
> Problems:
>
> 1) AbiWord features are constantly changing so which version should
> I document? Or do I just go with what's there noe and change it on the fly?
>
Go with what's present now and make changes on the fly. The latest CVS
version has just implented an online help. Use that as a starting point.
Unfortunately(?) it is already out of date. We making changes fast and
furiously right now.
> 2) I like images! Can there be too many images?
>
See the online help system for starters.
> 3) I will probably have next to no time to give come fall semster(we'll see).
>
Make Hay while you can then :-)
Cheers
Martin
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