HELP BASED AROUND MENU COMMANDS AVAILABLE - BASICS
Basic editing & formatting commands & shortcuts
(Allignment, Font Style & Size)
Overview of Keyboard shortcuts
Opening, Saving & Loading / Search & Replace
"How to" do what there aren't commands yet to do ;-)
(such as tabs, columns, spacing)
INFORMATION WHICH MAY BE OF INTEREST - INFO
(NOT RELATED TO HOW TO USE)
Open Source background
AbiSource & AbiWord background
Volunteering to help
Suggestions for promoting
Overview of Currently Implemented Features
& List of those lacking (but which are listed as menu commands)
INFORMATION & FILES USEFUL TO USER - ADVANCED
Templates - Memo, Letter, Fax, & Newsletter
Standard 'secretarial, school & business' rules for setting up documents
(I've never seen this on WP help before, but people do ask about it)
Basic Grammar rules (I know this is unusual too, but we want Abiword to be
unique ;-)
I've been playing around with Templates (very basic of course), and one or
two of the other ideas, and wouldn't mind people taking their pick of what
interests them. I have no problem with using HTML or Window Help format,
and can use part Screenshots / examples with either, etc.
Nathan
BTW, it would be good if those of us working on this could have some
dialogue & info from those working on the actual manual.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hostetler [mailto:jeff@AbiSource.com]
At 07:39 AM 6/8/99 -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
>I'll soon have time to help out with the help files. They will be
>HTML based, right? I'd suggest that we use plain-jane HTML at this
>point, just so the look stays consistent. We can apply style sheets
>later.
yes. the idea was simple HTML all contained within a single
directory (.../EnUS/*.html) with local hrefs so that we can
translate them by cloning the file/link layout (ie .../FrFR/*.html)
and inserting new prose.
this way help lookup becomes something like:
OpenUrl("$AbiLibDir/$AppName/help/$Language/foo.html")
then the browser takes over the navigation within the help files....
>Send me an outline & assign me a section!
cool.
jeff