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

Sorry, LAU - sent to wrong list!

david wrote:
> 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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