2010/4/3 Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com>: > Over the past four years, it has been next to impossible to get people > interested in the reference manual project, not even for something as > simple as reading the rewritten chapters and telling me what they think > about it. Still, at the same time, complaints about the quality of the > documentation have been a constant recurrence on the mailing list. > > I know the argument that beginners do not understand the source > well enough to write a manual themselves is valid. But it is equally > true that a person that *does* know the source enough to write the > manual is not the correct person to proofread it. > > The near total lack of feedback had led me to believe that most > complainers are in it just for the complaining. This is extremely > demotivating, and so I have almost given up on doing documentation > at all. I mean, what's the point if nobody really cares? There are > many more interesting things to do in life than work for weeks on > end on revising chapters nobody appears willing to read anyway.
I'm more than willing to proofread it and offer suggestions, and I'm pretty certain I'm not the only one. Regards, -- Vedran Miletić ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
