[LAU] [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden Manual

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Feb 18 07:13:21 UTC 2011


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 It may still be useful if you can get it cheap, but it is out of date.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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