On Sunday 18 July 2010 12:30:37 Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On 7/18/10, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > My hat is off to the Scribus team for having created a manual. Few open > > source projects have a manual. > > Quite in opposite. Most GNOME and KDE applications have manuals. Just F1 :) > > > Most don't even have PDFs. At least half > > don't even have a help file. > > Producing a PDF out of DocBook/XML from any GNOME/KDE app's help is > not exactly rocket science. > > > Some would create documentation, but hate to write, or can't > > write at all. To most it never occurs that documentation is important. > > Writing documentation is not job of a programmer. Then don't have to > even think about it.
In my days as a programming supervisor, it was considered good form to create user documentation first, then do the coding to fit. For program documentation (HIPO diagram, flow chart, Decision Logic tables etc.) that was generally done and approved before coding started. In today's world things are different, but the person who understands the functionality is still the best person to write the user guide. I have never understood the unwillingness of programmers to write user guides. After all, English (or whatever) is just another language, like C or Python. John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
