Hi Paul, Maybe I should take the GNUStep version you produce, when it is ready, and substitute OS X screen shots for a separate OS X version. It might be too much to have both sets of images in one manual. Each could go in the appropriate trunk.
What do you think? Warm regards. david --------- David Hill, Project Administrator [email protected] Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures (Tao Te Ching #67) --------- On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Paul Tyson wrote: > OK, I will aim to update all images and descriptions with what I see in > the gnustep Monet application. > > If someone can provide screenshots from the OS X application, I can > include those as well (or, they could be added later). In the docbook > source, we can specify the platform for each image, which will allow > generation of separate manuals for gnustep and osx if desired. > > Regards, > --Paul > > On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 12:57 -0700, David Hill wrote: >> Hi Paul, >> >> >> Sorry for the delay in responding. The end of April is not a good time >> for dealing with anything important other than Canadian income tax!! >> >> On Apr 27, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Paul Tyson wrote: >> >>> What started as an attempt to correct a few HTML formatting issues >>> in the Monet manual turned into a conversion of the manual to >>> Docbook xml. >> >> >> A task that is much appreciated. >> >>> I also took the opportunity to merge the separate documents for >>> adding postures and rules into the main manual. I created several >>> thumbnail images that were missing from svn. These are not the best >>> quality, since I just scaled down the full-size images, and I am not >>> a graphics expert. >>> >>> One of the reasons I wanted to get the manual in shape is to help me >>> study the gnustep Monet application, but right off I find >>> discrepancies between the the manual and the application. As I >>> understand it: 1) the manual describes the NeXT version of the >>> application; 2) several changes were made in porting to OS X; and 3) >>> possibly other changes were made in the gnustep version. >>> >>> My question is, can I take the existing gnustep Monet application as >>> the desired state? >> >> >> It would be best to treat the existing Mac OS X version as definitive, >> but the GNUStep version is supposed to be logically the same, although >> -- naturally -- the GNUStep version does not use the Aqua interface. >> Ultimately, a separate manual is required for each of GNUStep and Mac >> OS X, where the text should be pretty well the same, but the screen >> shots differ. >> >>> If so, I can modify the manual to match the current state of the >>> application. >> >> >> That would be a perfectly reasonable approach. >> >>> There are some windows that appear to be design improvements over >>> the screenshots in the manual, but I don't want to assume anything >>> without guidance from experts in the group. >>> >> >> >> Monet was improved during the port. The GNUStep version is the >> improved version. >> >>> >>> In other words, would I go too far wrong by updating the manual to >>> replace existing screenshots with new ones from the current gnustep >>> Monet application (and updating the descriptions to match)? >>> >> >> >> You would be doing exactly the right thing. >> >>> >>> I have no way of knowing how gnustep Monet diverges from the OS X >>> version. It would be possible to tag the variants in the manual, so >>> that you could either produce platform-specific versions of the >>> manual, or a combined version with the platform-specific differences >>> identified. >>> >> >> >> As noted, apart from the screen shots, the Mac OS X version and >> GNUStep versions are supposed to be identical. The existing Monet >> manual uses screen shots taken directly from a NeXT and represent the >> original version which stays for the NeXT (anyone still running a NeXT >> apart from me :-), but is superseded for the ported versions where the >> operations are ordered and controlled in a slightly different, >> hopefully better, way. >> >> >> There may be changes in the future, but the manual is designed to >> editable -- right? >> >> >> HTH >> >> >> david >> >> >> --------- >> David Hill, Project Administrator >> [email protected] >> Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest >> treasures (Tao Te Ching #67) >> --------- >> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnuspeech-contact mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact >
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