On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:55:57PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: > I'll let you in on a non-secret, to everyone but yourself. There already > *is* an awareness of the need for documentation. Sadly, no one wants to > do it- it's boring, time-consuming, constantly outdated, and just not > much fun. Your whining about it on the list will not change those facts.
It's also low-status. If I wrote ZipEdit, a new text editor that emphasizes speed, I could possibly become well-known in the Free Software community. If I write a better manual for some mid-level utility like xfe, no one but the xfe developer is likely to ever realize it, despite the fact that xfe is quite good. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]