1. Go for it!
2. Keep in touch, letting abiword-dev know how it's going.
3. Let abiword-dev know if you need any help. (pun intended)
More customized response:
Yes, we've intended all along that AbiWord's online help would be done
in HTML. There have been a lot of notions and ideas tossed around,
but I'm not aware of any effort which has gotten off the ground.
Eventually, AbiWord will need a printed manual as well as an online
help system. There has been some discussion of sharing content
between the two, but nothing firm yet. AFAIK, there is no active
effort right now to develop the printed manual.
Several other people have expressed an interest in helping with
documentation, but I don't think there's any organization among those
folks right now. In a perfect world, one of the interested people
should volunteer to serve as a coordinator for "all efforts related to
documentation and help". I doubt the traffic of such an effort would
be enough to create abiword-doc yet, but it's conceivable...
--> I would like to assume the responsibility of creating the > On-Line HELP file. > > My first suggestion is that we use HTML files, for this > would create a Hypertext environment that will automatically > run on ALL platforms with the user's default Web Browser. > > The only objection I can see at this time is that not all > user's may have a browser. Making a user have a browser > to access On-Line HELP seems to be a very small price > for complete compatibility and for ease of modifying HELP. > > Your opinions would be appreciated. > > Thanx, > Larry Grimes > larryg@ofcw.com > http://www.ofcw.com/ >
-- Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman eric@abisource.com