Hi.
I agree. There should be a final proof read that will include everything
and should make it easy for a beginner to follow but there are some text
and grammar issues that needs to be sorted before then.
Thank you.
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Reidar Vik <trostereiret...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Maybe a good idea, but it can be wise to look briefely trough the text at
> this stage to fix some text issues. Hopefully the one who makes the
> illustrations don't have to do things twice.
>
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> 2017-07-24 4:02 GMT+02:00 brynn <br...@frii.com>:
>
>> Hi Friends,
>> I had initially started with proofreading for the new beginners
>> guide, but quickly found it was very difficult to do, without taking the
>> graphics into account. Without knowing where the images are going to be
>> placed and whether they might have captions or not, it's hard to make the
>> text fit well.
>>
>> Especially when the goal is to be brief and clear with the text,
>> and not load it with a lot of technical details. One way to make it
>> simple, is to use graphics wisely. But if the graphic for a particular
>> item is far away from the text on the page, it could backfire, and make it
>> more difficult to understand.
>>
>> I (or anyone) could proofread the text by itself. But after the
>> layout and styling teams do their jobs, and place the images on the pages,
>> the text and graphics may or may not work well together. Unless that's
>> part of the style and layout teams' jobs? But it seems like that puts a
>> lot of work on their plates?
>>
>> So I want to propose doing the proofreading as the final step.
>> I'm not familiar with writing books or manuals. But for general text
>> documents, like articles or theses, it seems like proofreading is usually
>> the final step. So I thought it couldn't hurt to make the suggestion.
>>
>> I wasn't sure whether to make this an Issue in the gitlab. It
>> seems like not very many of the Docs team or guide-writing team is looking
>> there. So I wanted to at least start the discussion where the widest
>> number of people can see it. If a formal Issue is needed, I'll be glad to
>> make one.
>>
>> Anyway, just a thought.
>>
>> Thanks for listening,
>> brynn
>>
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