The documentation is currently in a state of flux due to changes in the way it's written and updated, that's why there are so many "versions". It's supposed to stabilize once darktable 3.6 is out. Please read the Documentation section on https://www.darktable.org/2020/12/darktable-3-4/ Regards, Guillermo
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:49 AM Willy Williams <grayc...@bolthole.net> wrote: > Kofa, thanks for the clarity. There are other links that I've found so > far. It appears that these two links go to very similar pages: > http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/ and > https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/. Within each of these pages > there are links that lead here - > http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/darktable_user_manual.pdf and > https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/darktable_user_manual.pdf > respectively. Then there is this one - > https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-3.4.0/darktable-usermanual.pdf. > All are shown as being for v3.4. So how is one to know which of these five > is the most current, leading edge document, but not the bleeding edge > (development) version? One could very easily become confused by the > plethora of literature? > > Willy Williams > > -- > > "You don't take a picture. You ask quietly and humbly to borrow it." > > - Unknown > > -- > > On 1/19/21 1:16 AM, KOVÁCS István wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 06:31, Patrick Shanahan <p...@opensuse.org> > <p...@opensuse.org> wrote: > > * darkta...@911networks.com <darkta...@911networks.com> > <darkta...@911networks.com> [01-18-21 23:09]: > > There is: > http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/ > > and > https://darktable.gitlab.io/doc/en/index.html > > are they the same? Which one should I use? > > if you looked at them, surely you noticed a difference. use the one that > is for the version of darktable you utilize. > > should be very easy to make that choice. > > Since they both say 3.4, and in fact *are* for 3.4, the question was > valid and the answer was just as wrong as > arrogant.https://darktable.gitlab.io/doc/en/index.html is 'old' in the sense > that it's the updated version of the 'old style' manual. Nevertheless, > it has been updated for 3.4, but is the last such update. It is > available in multiple languages.https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/ is > the new version, and that > is the format that will be used in the future. It has fewer > screenshots (which tend to change often, and are therefore hard to > maintain). > Finally, https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/ is, as far as I know, > the latest and greatest, updated for the development version (even > though its version number still says 3.4). It's automatically > generated from https://github.com/darktable-org/dtdocs > The latter two are currently available only in English. > Kofa > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
