QTR-Quadtone RIP

Hi Stephen

The QTR User Guide certainly needs some work. For the next month or so
I will be too busy curling to get to it. Later in April I plan to work
on a revision.

I'm not convinced that just posting the MS Word document would be a
useful thing to do. However, if there are people who are interested in
contributing to the document, that would be great once I revise the
table of contents and determine the objectives of each section.
However, I think that someone (or a small group) has to maintain
editorial control of the document. It seems to me that just throwing
the document out into the "wild" would make that too difficult.

One of the (many) glaring deficiencies of the User Guide, is that it
is oriented toward the PC user environment. Since I'm not a Mac user,
I have no plans to address this this need. If someone wants to create
a Mac version, I would be quite willing to provide the source of my
document as a starting point (or better yet, to exchange material). If
someone wishes to incorporate Mac relevant content for the existing 
User Guide, I would be willing to incorporate it and to cooperate in
developing a joint table of contents.

With respect to a glossary, I would certainly be willing to
incorporate an expanded one into the revised document. If someone
wanted to act as a coordinator for construction of a glossary, that
would be useful and could start now. It's construction might also
serve as an example for how we could improve the User Guide cooperatively.

Another item than might be useful (but hasn't been mentioned, I think)
is a FAQ List. Again, volunteers to prepare one of these (even just
the questions to start) would be useful. A good one would be a great
resource for new users and would augment Yahoo's limited search
facilities. However, FAQ Lists take significant work to prepare and
keep current.

As a final thought, one of the current interesting means of
cooperative development of information is the Wiki (as in Wikipedia).
However, I have no interest in setting up a Wiki and I have know idea
what resources (knowledge, software etc.) one needs to maintain one.
However, you, Roy (or someone else)were willing to set up and host a
QuadtoneRIP Wiki, that might be a good means for cooperatively
developing a document.

Tom Moore

--- In QuadtoneRIP@...m, "Stephen Billard" <stephen@...> wrote:
>
> But, the documentation is essentially open source. It was not
written by Roy,
> but by a QTR user. It is published as a PDF for convenience, but I
am sure Tom
> Moore would be more than happy to provide the original MS Word
document to any
> and all who would wish to improve it.
> 
> I will certainly make the same offer for the QTRgui help. It is in
HTML. Who is
> volunteering? 
> 
> By the way, I have been in computers since 1962 (and photography
since the
> 1950's). I don't understand how the time in service has anything to
do with
> ability to write or communicate. 
> 
> 
> -Stephen
>  www.sbillard.org/Stephen

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