On 4/9/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/9/06, Rich Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> >
> > > I am a gnumeric gnubie.
> > >
> > > It would be nice to read some tutorial information about it, but I
> > > discover that the official site
> > > < http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/doc/chapter-quick-start.html >
> > > has some HTML screwups such that all the examples of Section 3.4
> > > "Using Commands" point to unreadable places on the web site. Places
> > > named ".html" instead of whatever their real name should be. Maybe
> > > other problems too, but that is as far as I got.
> > >
> > > Anywhere else to go to learn? My patience with treating computer
> > > utilities as "games to be learned by playing them" wears very thin
> > > very quickly. I discover by looking at some files on my system that
> > > the situation has not improved since I last tried, a year ago, to
> > > understand Gnumeric.
> >
> > Is this the bad one, or something better?
> >
> > http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/doc/chapter-quick-start.html
>
> That's the bad one. Try clicking on Section 3.4, and then Section 3.4.1.
>
> "You don't have permission to access /projects/gnumeric/doc/.html on
> this server."
>
> The link that ought to point to the text for Section 3.4.1 is effectivly null.
> Also for 3.4.2 3.4.3 3.4.4.
>
> At that point I gave up trying to read from the web site, a year ago.
> And also today. I just used wget to download an excess of stuff from
> www.gnome.org. I thought I had asked for the "gnumeric/doc" part,
> which turns out to be about 15.5 MB, but I got another 80MB of other
> stuff too. Now I have a copy of the html that I can edit, and will
> see if the fix is obvious.
This has graduated beyond a "newbie" question. Some find | grep
processing on the .html source has turned up the fact that there are
26 pages that have not been written, and are just stubbed off. This
isn't very good for a reference manual. Possibly some of these
sections do actually exist, but nobody put in the links to them.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat non_sections
Section 3.4.1 "Using Menu Commands"
Section 3.4.2 "Using Toolbar Button Commands"
Section 3.4.3 "Using Context Menu Commands"
Section 3.4.4 "Using Keyboard Shortcut Commands"
Section 3.5.1 "The Types of Data in a Spreadsheet"
Section 3.5.2 "Putting Data into the Spreadsheet"
Section 3.8.1 "Moving Cell Contents"
Section 3.8.2 "Inserting and Deleting Cells"
Section 4.5.1 "Current Cell Indicator"
Section 4.5.2 "The Cancel Button"
Section 4.5.3 "The Confirm Button"
Section 4.5.4 "The Equals Button"
Section 4.6.2 "The Scrollbars"
Section 4.6.3 "The Tabbed Sheet Indicator"
Section 4.7.1 "The Menu Hint Area"
Section 4.7.2 "The File Status Indicator"
Section 4.7.3 "The Running Calculation Area"
Section 6.3.1 "Using the Tool"
Section 6.3.2 "Results"
Section 6.3.3 "Desired Value in a Given Range"
Section 6.4.1 "Introduction to Linear Programming"
Section 6.4.2 "Spreadsheet Modeling"
Section 6.4.3 "Using Solver"
Section 6.4.4 "Solver Reports"
Section 6.4.5 "Integer Programming"
Section 10.3.2 "Toolbar"
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