Am Freitag, 21. April 2006 02:24 schrieb Gregory Pittman: > Something I've been tossing around in my head is a concept of a > different sort of reference than documentation in Scribus itself or some > of the tutorials. > > The idea is to take the individual design elements of DTP as used in > Scribus, then create an explanatory listing of the operations that are > pertinent to that element. For example, one might start with the > topic/heading "Text frame", then compile a collection of all the things > you might do with/to a text frame, starting with creation, of course, > but including text entry from various sources, manipulation of contents, > shape, position, linking, and so forth. To be sure, some of this is > repetitive, as in the fact that some things you can do with a text frame > apply to any frame. > > It just seems that many of the questions that come through the list are > of the type, "How do I do such-and-such with a text frame?" And that > people are beginning with an idea of what they want to do, and trying to > find a logical place to start. > > Does anyone else think this is a worthwhile endeavor? > > Greg
Hi Greg, I have finished a quite extensive documentation in German that basically follows two principles: 1) describe the GUI and explain the meaning of each menu/dialog/whatever as detailed as possible 2) explain the features related to different objects such as text frames, image frames, polygons etc. In both cases I use examples or at least explain the practical use of the feature. At least I tried to do so ;)
