1. Online Manual vs .PDF File
- Posted by tbohon Nov 07, 2010
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I've been trying to go through the (new?) online manual and while the organization is great the links starting in section 5 or so aren't correct. Thus when clicking on a link to go to the next page I can go anywhere (pretty much anyway 
) Not finding fault here just trying to get to some of the pages via the links and being basically told 'no, go here instead' ...
Is there perhaps a printable manual (.doc or .pdf) available? If so how do I find it? If not can something be made available? I'm old fashioned in that I like to read a printed page and make (sometimes copious) notes as I read through the documentation.
Tnx.
Tom
2. Re: Online Manual vs .PDF File
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Nov 07, 2010
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Is there perhaps a printable manual (.doc or .pdf) available? If so how do I find it? If not can something be made available? I'm old fashioned in that I like to read a printed page and make (sometimes copious) notes as I read through the documentation.
There is. While testing some 'upgrades' to the documentation build process, I posted a pdf in the eubins:
http://openeuphoria.org/eubins/docs/
Matt
3. Re: Online Manual vs .PDF File
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Nov 07, 2010
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I've been trying to go through the (new?) online manual and while the organization is great the links starting in section 5 or so aren't correct. Thus when clicking on a link to go to the next page I can go anywhere (pretty much anyway ) Not finding fault here just trying to get to some of the pages via the links and being basically told 'no, go here instead' ...
Printed documentation (or online reading of PDF) is good but the online manual should be correct as well. Can you give me a few examples of links that are not working out? I did notice that sometimes my browser was aggressively caching old content and if I hit refresh, I would indeed get the right link. Is that maybe the case with you also?
Jeremy
5. Re: Online Manual vs .PDF File
- Posted by tbohon Nov 07, 2010
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Jeremy:
After clearing my cache I was able to access every topic in any order I wished so yes, caching appears to be the culprit here. Sorry for the false alarm (although don't you feel better now with all the cholesterol destroyed by the adrenalin??? )
Seriously I love the organization of the online manual - and now that I know how to fool my browser I'm going to be using it a lot.
Thanks for all the obvious work here ... it's appreciated.
Best,
Tom
6. Re: Online Manual vs .PDF File
- Posted by irv Nov 07, 2010
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It's the Quick Links on the right hand side of the page that do not go where they claim to go.
For example: Language Reference takes you to eu400-0012 (Editing a program)
AFAIK, all except the first one, Table of Contents, take you to something entirely unrelated.
7. Re: Online Manual vs .PDF File
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Nov 07, 2010
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It's the Quick Links on the right hand side of the page that do not go where they claim to go.
For example: Language Reference takes you to eu400-0012 (Editing a program)
AFAIK, all except the first one, Table of Contents, take you to something entirely unrelated.
Yes, that is a problem. I think until we get it solved we will be removing quick links. The problem is they are static and every time we update the docs the links change. It's a no fun and problematic to keep those in sync. Matt began a plugin which will do that automatically for us but it was put on hold for more urgent Eu4 tasks.
Jeremy
8. Re: Online Manual vs .PDF File
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Nov 07, 2010
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Seriously I love the organization of the online manual - and now that I know how to fool my browser I'm going to be using it a lot.
Don't forget to use the search! Method and Type names are now given priority, for example searching for "split".
Thanks for all the obvious work here ... it's appreciated.
That thanks goes out to many people who are responsible for the documentation. Too numerous to mention, see wiki:EuphoriaContributors.
Jeremy
