Jörg wrote > Curtis > actually your question hits me about 1 month too early! > I am in the midst of a final checkout of my proposal for a newly styled > "getstart". But you asked now - so I guess I ask everyone if my proposal > could be seen as what you are asking for. Pls have a look at > http://www.emmerich-j.de/Handbuch/EN/1_Start.html > and/or > http://www.emmerich-j.de/Handbuch/DE/1_Start.html > > Again: I planned to introduce this end of the month - but if people > believe it could be useful I welcome all help I can get to finalize it! > > To the History: > I am not sure anybody still remembers that I announced about 1.5 years > ago to translate the existing "getstart.pdf" into German. In the > meantime I did that - 3 times: > > 1. Attempt > While translating I noticed very often that I was not sure if that, what > I was reading was fitting all environments or just MAC or .. or. Also > the MakeUp was not really fitting any more the current modern > FlightGear. So my major change was to define one central chapter > ("Installation") in which all OS-Dependencies are covered by defining > the Variables $FG_... for all OS's - and referred to those throughout > the book. > Also I tried to remove several long listings of Options, Possibilities > etc. out of the text into the Appendix or special chapters! > > 2. Attempt > After having tested that I still was not satisfied with how to use it as > a Reference. i.e. it was nice to read from the beginning to the end - > but if you had a unique question after that, I found it very difficult > to find an answer for a unique detail in the "getstart". So I > restructured that whole thing in the hope of getting a "Manual to read", > being also "for the inpatient newbie" and also as a "Reference for all > Basics". > > 3. Attempt > That 2. I liked better - and thought it might be useful also for the > people with an "English Tongue" - so now I translated that German one > back to English. And tried to use as much of the "English Original > speech" as possible -- that then made me adapting my German version > again - so both are now equal. > > I wanted to introduce that outcome about end of this month to the > dev-team, to see especially whether the "Originators of the getstart" > still find their share in what I did, and concur to this change. I hope > nobody feels offended by my partly drastic changes to their origin. You > will see that I still list the "Originators" and just claim the > "Revision" for myself. > > Any comments, critics, suggestions, improvements, etc. are highly > welcome. >
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