[LAU] [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden Manual

[david]

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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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