Re: [LAU] [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden Manual

D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday, February 13, 2011, Detlef Schütz wrote:
>
>> By the way: there seems to be an old manual written in 2005. Is this
>> manual near enough to the actual program?
>
> It may still be useful if you can get it cheap, but it is out of date. I
> wrote that just as Rosegarden 1.0 was coming out, and a great deal has changed
> since then.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no easy way to put together a print version of our
> current documentation. We have moved all of it to a wiki now, in order to
> make it easier to maintain, and easier for people to help with writing
> documentation, but this has made it more difficult to produce PDF files.

If someone has a copy of Acrobat Professional (yah, sorry, junk $$$
Windows/Mac software!), it can be used to convert an entire website
(such as a wiki) into a PDF.

> The documentation is not in the best of shape either, I fear. I used to be
> the documentation writer, and that was my only responsibility. Now I manage
> the entire project, and do a lot of the development. Documentation has fallen
> way down on my list of priorities, and I don't have much time to be involved
> with keeping it up to date. We have help from several people who have taken
> up some of my slack in this area, but the job is very large, and our
> documentation is always the last thing to get done.

I wish I had the time. Used to make a living as a tech writer that wrote
user manuals ...

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David
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