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Re: BC Manager Manual

2008-06-16 by k5kip_1999

Ok - I understand.
Thanks again, for all your hard work!

Kip


--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Mark van den Berg" <markwinvdb@...> wrote:
>
> --- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "k5kip_1999" <k5kip_1999@> wrote:
> > After reading more and more of it, I really like your manual.
> > However, I do think that more images in the document would be great.
> > If you send me the manual file, I will start add some images where
> > appropriate.
> > I don't want to cut and paste from the pdf or try to rewrite the text
> > you have already written.
> > So... send me the source of the pdf, I usually render my pdfs with
> > open office.  I don't know what you wrote the bcman manual in.
> > Send it and I will get to work. Or even use it as a basis for a
> > getting started manual.
> > I already captured some images of bcman to use.  Just have not gotten
> > around to writing text...
> > So send me the source of the manual only.
> 
> > yesterday after much trial and error I figure out how to make an
> > indexed (bookmarked and hotlinked with table of contents) pdf file
using
> > Open Office 2.4!
> >
> > Also, I was thinking this morning, that maybe a screen movie would be
> > better for the getting started.  I will experiment and get back to
you.
> > Then I could post it on youtube, along with the bcr2000 + Live demo
> > movie I already did.
> 
> First of all: thank you for your enthousiasm, Kip! I never dreamed BC 
> Manager could become a movie star!
> 
> I've given this whole matter some further thought: I do appreciate
> your point that the terseness and lack of graphics in the "official"
> manual may cause problems for starting users. However, as I have
> explained previously, for practical reasons I don't want the
> "official" manual to increase in size because of added graphics, at
> least not at this point in time. Secondly, since I'm continually
> updating the manual, it would be very confusing to users if a kind of
> "extended" version of the "official" manual started floating around on
> the various websites. Moreover, we would get in an almighty editorial
> tangle; and frankly, speaking for myself, I simply don't have the time
> or energy for that right now. I'm having a hard enough time keeping
> the manual up-to-date with all the latest program changes right now.
> But if you (or anyone else) want to write a Getting Started manual/ 
> screen movie, you have my blessing, and I might even give feedback etc.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Mark.
>

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