Re: How to suggest edits to the manual?
- Posted by _tom (admin) Feb 03, 2015
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Improving the documentation--official process:
- Complain (loudly)
- Allow for response using geological scale time delay
- Write an outline of some suggested changes
- Enter a formal ticket (to keep ideas and complaints from getting lost)
- Write out some suggested copy
- Add something to the wiki, and refer to it in a forum post
- This will allow some interactive editing
You can ignore Creole formatting...I will do it for you. If you want to use creole I'm starting to establish a standard. But, best not to waste energy fussing over formatting at this time.
- Use creole = == === to suggest some heading levels (correspond roughly to html <h1> <h2> <h3> )
- Headings will be mostly for your own organization, the manual may differ.
- I'm now using creole bold to define important words followed by a definition.
- A bmp is "a Microsoft format for pixel based graphics images."
- These definitions to be extracted and added to an index.
- Use creole / / / / italics for emphasis.
- Use creole <eucode> and </eucode> to enclose Euphoria source-code
- There is no value in using \ \ line breaks. They are only useful in the final edition of the manual.
I have broken (literally) the documentation into smaller files. It will be easier to keep each topic to one small file rather than the monsters that exist now.
- eudoc collects the small files and makes one master file
- creole converts this text file into html
- wkhtmltopdf converts html into a pdf
If someone wants a TeX formatted pdf then they are in charge of that project.
Example bmp
You have not been ignored but:
You know more about the bmp format than I do. Last time I used bmp format was with Windows 3 or 4. Euphoria documentation on bmp dates roughly to that era.
Since Windows 8 and Windows 9 have not been successful I was optimistic that no-one would mention bmp format.
Sorry I did not respond faster...
_tom
