On 10/7/2011 1:26 AM, a.l.e wrote: > On 10/7/11 2:24 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: >> On 10/6/2011 3:29 PM, ale rimoldi wrote: >>> hi >>> >>> a mail from the past... >>> >>>>> You guys are all saying that NEW users should download the 1.4RC5 >>>>> to start with, but there is no tutorial based on that version while >>>>> there is a tutorial based on the 1.3.3.14 version. >>> >>> there are many others reasons which makes me suggest to use 1.4RC5. >>> >>> the three most important reasons are >>> - 1.4RC5 is already more stable than 1.3.3.14 >>> - nobody who does (free) support for scribus has 1.3.3.14 installed, so >>> no chance to get some help with it >>> - when the 1.3.3.14 people hit a problem, they're very deceived to hear >>> that there is no chance to see it fixed, expect waiting for 1.4 (they >>> mostly don't understand why, since 1.3.14 is the stable and 1.4 is >>> not the stable!) >>> >>>>> I, being a >>>>> brand new user, find that I need both versions, because if I don't >>>>> find the elements mentioned in the tutorial where it says they are, >>>>> then I am lost. >>>>> >>>>> It is, after all, the NEW user who has the most need for a tutorial. >>>> >>>> Honestly, in my experience, the quickest way to find out how to do >>>> something (or whether it's even supported at all) is Google. I've >>>> never even used the Scribus tutorial. >>> >>> there is the help in scribus which is mostly available by pressing the >>> F1 key (the "working with" chapters could replace a tutorial)... but >>> indeed no tutorial. >>> >>> but anybody could port that tutorial to 1.4... i don't think it such a >>> huge task. >>> (personally, i don't like that tutorial: so it's not me who will port >>> it... but i could translate in english the "hands on" chapter i wrote >>> for the scribus manual in french: >>> http://fr.flossmanuals.net/Scribus/PriseEnMain ; is there any interest?) >>> >>> >> >> I would definitely be interested. >> > in? > > a.l.e
If this is supposed to be funny, I'm afraid I don't understand your humor. The last line of your previous message is "is there any interest?" Did you forget so soon what you were asking about? -- Dale Erwin Lurigancho, Lima 15 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.26, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.18470) http://www.pctools.com/ =======
