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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Re: BC Manager Manual
2008-06-16 by k5kip_1999
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