Re: [GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-05-13 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Phil, before I start: it seems the mail server rejected your mail because of the for it unknown attachment. Perhaps Derek will comment on that later. Thunderbird did not display your attachment. I had to trick it to display it in LibreOffice. David is right, just register your wiki account

Re: [GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-05-13 Thread john
> On May 11, 2022, at 8:30 AM, Phillip Duff wrote: > > For the Mac at least, CMake has a user interface, but for some reason the > author wants to bring everything back to command line level, so the Make > interface should be referenced. Not sure about Linux, so we can leave the > command

Re: [GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-05-13 Thread john
> On May 11, 2022, at 8:30 AM, Phillip Duff wrote: > > (Needs to have added here for Mac users that if you install XTools, you > already have both Git and make (which ic buried further down, too late). We > should simply recommend that Xtools is installed, whether it is 4Gb is > irrelevant

Re: [GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-05-13 Thread Phillip Duff
HI, Looks like I might need some help here as well as offering a rewrite for the ‘How to change documentation in GNUCash, which I find difficult, confusing and overly technical when the audience is documenters who may well not be developers. It has taken me a whole afternoon to unravel what

Re: [GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-05-11 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Phillip, Your attachment uses a proprietary format that many might find difficult to open. I know I do. Perhaps you could create a pdf? If you think you can improve the wiki page, you should just go for it. As for the complexity of the tools and the process, I can only agree. David On May

Re: [GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-04-30 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Frank, I disagree with your assertion regarding placing transitory information (such as the current state of the installation process of Finance::Quote on Macos) into documentation rather than the wiki. There's an installation page on the wiki for just that reason. But this is just another

Re: [GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-04-30 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi together, Am 23.04.22 um 20:04 schrieb David T. via gnucash-user: > Phillip, > > Good to hear that someone is interested in working on the documentation! Christian Wehling is permanently working on the manual (help) starting from translating to German and backporting improvements to the

Re: [GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-04-23 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Phillip, Good to hear that someone is interested in working on the documentation! Gnucash uses Bugzilla (bugs.gnucash.org) to suggest enhancements and fix bugs, and the documentation has its own section there. You will find that there are numerous documentation bugs and enhancements

[GNC] Documentation changes needed

2022-04-23 Thread Phillip Duff
Hi, Issue 1: For whoever is responsible for your documentation. I spent 40 years in IT companies in a variety of roles and now retired , I will offer to rewrite and assist in your documentation. In reviewing your documentation I think there are a number of improvements that I can offer,