Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-11 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Ti, 2006-04-11, 13:41, Chris Lyttle skrev: > As the maintainer of the GnuCash documentation let me make a statement > here. First, I have no problems with people editing the docs in a wiki > or whatever makes it easier to actually write content. That was the general idea. And we did float the

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-10 Thread Chris Lyttle
As the maintainer of the GnuCash documentation let me make a statement here. First, I have no problems with people editing the docs in a wiki or whatever makes it easier to actually write content. However, I would then put myself in an editorial role and decide what would make it from there into

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Stanley Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could Docvert offer something here? http://holloway.co.nz/docvert/ > " This web service software takes multiple word processor files > (typically .doc) and converts them to Oasis OpenDocument." Nope. We don't use .doc or OpenDocument files. We use docb

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-07 Thread Stanley Long
Bengt Thuree wrote: On Fr, 2006-04-07, 17:14, David Grant skrev: On April 6, 2006 11:59 pm, Bengt Thuree wrote: On Fr, 2006-04-07, 14:10, David Grant skrev: On April 6, 2006 08:40 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote: If not, I think the advantage of wider editing of the docs out-weighs the disadvan

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another option we _might_ be willing to settle for would be static > html docs, which I suspect are easier to produce from a wiki. Not true at all. I can easily produce static html docs from the docbook docs... Just like I easily produce the doxygen

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-07 Thread Derek Atkins
David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But why do you even need docbook in the first place? Why not just use > mediawiki? Two words: "Printable Copy". We want to be able to have a source that allows us to put it on the web OR turn it into a PDF for printing. A mediawiki-only solution doesn't

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-07 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Fr, 2006-04-07, 17:14, David Grant skrev: > On April 6, 2006 11:59 pm, Bengt Thuree wrote: >> On Fr, 2006-04-07, 14:10, David Grant skrev: >> > On April 6, 2006 08:40 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote: >> >> If not, I think the advantage of wider >> >> editing of the docs out-weighs the disadvantage of

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-07 Thread David Grant
On April 6, 2006 11:59 pm, Bengt Thuree wrote: > On Fr, 2006-04-07, 14:10, David Grant skrev: > > On April 6, 2006 08:40 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > >> If not, I think the advantage of wider > >> editing of the docs out-weighs the disadvantage of having to manually > >> reformat them for offline u

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-07 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Fr, 2006-04-07, 14:10, David Grant skrev: > On April 6, 2006 08:40 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote: >> If not, I think the advantage of wider >> editing of the docs out-weighs the disadvantage of having to manually >> reformat them for offline use. > > Good point, I think wider editing of the docs is

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-06 Thread David Grant
On April 6, 2006 08:40 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > If not, I think the advantage of wider > editing of the docs out-weighs the disadvantage of having to manually > reformat them for offline use. Good point, I think wider editing of the docs is huge and outweighs any disadvantage I can think of.

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-06 Thread David Grant
On April 6, 2006 07:24 pm, Bengt Thuree wrote: > On Fr, 2006-04-07, 09:32, David Grant skrev: > > But why do you even need docbook in the first place? Why not just use > > mediawiki? > > > > I definitely recommend putting all the documentation in some form of > > wiki or drupal form so that anyone

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-06 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:24:46AM +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: > > On Fr, 2006-04-07, 09:32, David Grant skrev: > > > But why do you even need docbook in the first place? Why not just use > > mediawiki? > > > > I definitely recommend putting all the documentation in some form of > > wiki or drupal

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-06 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Fr, 2006-04-07, 09:32, David Grant skrev: > But why do you even need docbook in the first place? Why not just use > mediawiki? > > I definitely recommend putting all the documentation in some form of > wiki or drupal form so that anyone can edit pages easily. > Ok, I am definitely not an expe

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-06 Thread David Grant
Christian Stimming wrote: > Recently I also investigated the possibility of editing the whole > "Tutorial Guide" and also the "Help" directly inside a wiki instead of > the DocBook files. However, that's not quite possible. It is easily > possible to import an existing DocBook file collection into

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-03 Thread Christian Stimming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Sled schrieb: > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:24 +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: >> Just wondering what the plan/progress is for updating the various >> documents for 2.0 (Concept guide for instance). >> >> Any special area that needs help? All areas need

Re: GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-03 Thread Josh Sled
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:24 +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: > Just wondering what the plan/progress is for updating the various > documents for 2.0 (Concept guide for instance). > > Any special area that needs help? > Any wiki place which tracks the progress of this? I think a wiki page would be a goo

GnuCash Concept Guide

2006-04-03 Thread Bengt Thuree
Hi Just wondering what the plan/progress is for updating the various documents for 2.0 (Concept guide for instance). Any special area that needs help? Any wiki place which tracks the progress of this? Just wondering... and since I do have some little time this week... /Bengt p.s. I read this m