On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> BandiPat wrote: > > Gregory Pittman wrote: > One of my comments on the list was wondering whether anyone had > actually, literally, gone through this tutorial that Niyam had written, > since I noted that as it progressed the detail got rather sparse in a > way that would cause a user to lose interest. Yet, on a practical level, > it's not clear to me that there would be many who go through this > step-by-step, page-by-page, all the way to the end, since users are not > in the end interested in making Niyam's booklet, they're interested in > making their own work. So this will be something to "leaf through", > perhaps do some bits here and there, but mainly hope to remember what > sorts of operations are demonstrated to be able to refer to later when > needed. It came out in the 1.? days and I actually worked right through it. It was "good" at the time and while still good, I take your point about the loss of interest etc. It's my firm beleif that the best way to impart techniques/practices is to have a series of short How-Tos, like the wiki's Usage HowTos. The only extra I would add would be a link to a downloadable PDF of the HowTos Owen
