Sunburned Surveyor I read with attention the SCRIBUS templates you sent about Openjump Help. I start to tranfer the Menu>View function in a similar SCRIBUS document. I have some consideration I would like to talk with you
1)the Page orientation has a landscape (1,00x8,50 inch) size. This is good for Presentation (That's not a bad Idea!). Nevertheless we lose a lot of space on the lateral and on the bottom/upper sizes of the page that we could use to detail the functions or to put images We could enlarge the margins of the page or we can use a standard A4 Portrait page (but we lose the Presentation size) 2) In Title_page.sla document you place enphasis on the explanation. This, I think, could give some confusion, expecially for Non-English readers, like me. I always image for a help something like "less text more image". A sort of "topographic map" of OpenJUMP for the users (see as samples the files I wrote in Openwriter). I send you a modification of the Title_page.sla file, as I image (sorry for my English) 3) There are so many functions in OpenJump that it is not possible to describe each of them in sepatate pages. We are obliged, anyhow, to simplify the description of the most common functions (like "Save Project","Undo", "redo", etc..) and to put groups them in one page in order to save space. 3)My basical idea about a Help Document is a sistematic list of functions, simple but detailed enough to understand the usage. All the extra, detailed explanations could be written in other documents, like tutorials, To give force to my Idea, I invite you to see this page: http://www.forestpal.com/Help/fGIS_help.html This is the help and tutorial of a Gis editor "Forestry GIS" which became popular for its simplicity (as Openjump) but also for the simplicity of the help file which is also a sort of tutorial Giuseppe --------------------------------- P.S. Giuseppe wrote: "Anyhow may name is Giuseppe and not Guiseppe, which sounds in Italian like a "playmate french name." Sunburned Surveyor answerd: "These European names are really proving to be difficult for an American hill billy. I appreciate your patience with my cultural ignorance. :]" London(?), I am very sorry if hit your sensibility. I have never considered you an "American hill billy" but an intelligent person who relly contribute to an international project like Openjump ;]. Anyhow, if this can give support to the difference, Buddha said that even an American Hillbilly could be a Zen Master :) So excuse me again and be patient with my bad, rude English. And use whatever version of my name you prefer. My favourite one is: Peppe ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
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