Hello Peter, This is what you said on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:35:48 +0100 your time:
> Shouldn't Ritlabs produce manuals for their software? At first I was going to say I 100% agree, but then I thought about it some more and decided that I didn't 100% agree after all. > I find it odd that users need to produce manuals for a commercial software > product. Yes, me too! However, the difference is that the manual that users are proposing to produce here is a printable manual, not an electronic manual for viewing/reading on a monitor. > Freeware/open source, yes; payware, no. Indeed, TB! isn't OS software, as you say, but it does come with a manual. Okay, TB!'s manual hasn't always been the best, and over the many years I have been using TB! the manual has received much criticism from users, but that's something else entirely...another topic. It seems to me that the manual being discussed here is a 'printable manual', which is something entirely different to an electronic manual supplied with the software...as TB! has one of those. User's getting together to produce a 'free' (I would hope) 'print ready' manual for TB! is a project that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the authors of TB! Many software vendors charge extra for printed versions of their manuals, granted, but not all vendors actually provide printed or printable versions of their manuals. This usually opens up the doors for third parties to make a bit of money, and as we all know the manual writing business is rather lucrative. So if TB! users want to get it together and produce a completely _free_ comprehensive, exhaustive, print ready manual for other TB! users then I fully support the project. Well, as long as it is organised properly, and the finished product can be thoroughly checked for errors and validated by other 'expert users'. -- Simon (Privateofcourse) #19341. We Hnd Owes Giro? ¶ TB! 4.0.38 WinXP Pro Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.38.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
