Help to get a user guide

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 07:12:23 Matthew East wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to jiggle around the replies to avoid the top posting and remove
> unnecessary quoting.
>
> On Tue, June 5, 2007 12:18 pm, Chris Fordham wrote:
> > Matt wrote:
> >> * Edward Paulson:
> >>> I'm not sure this is the right place for such as questions if it is not
> >>> don't annoy please.
> >>>
> >>> I'm new in Linux. So as to find out more I am looking for "User guide"
> >>> or
> >>> "Manual" as full as possible. I mean something in pdf or similar
> >>> format.
> >>> Any request is appropriated.
> >>
> >> Our documentation is not available as pdf - however you can view our
> >> full material by clicking System->Help on an Ubuntu system, or by
> >> visiting https://help.ubuntu.com
> >
> > People will keep asking this question because wiki/help is not sufficient
> > and it has a lot of redundancies.
>
> I think there are two separate issues here. First, the question of what
> format we offer our documentation in. Secondly, the question of the
> quality or comprehensive nature of our documentation. Obviously converting
> our documentation into PDF is not going to magically affect its quality. I
> was addressing the first point (and I think the original poster was too),
> and I think Chris is addressing the second point.
>
> On that second point - no one pretends that our documentation is full or
> perfect. It is the best that we can do with the current resources and
> processes. Obviously, everyone is welcome to contribute and/or suggest
> improvements to those processes (we have some specifications open for that
> too), but simply "dissing" the documentation is not going to help it
> improve.
>
> Matt
>
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While I agree with our documentation being far from perfect, how can we go 
about moving the topic based help into a pdf format.  Obviously with the 
amount of emails/requests on IRC, etc that we are seeing we are not meeting a 
need that our customers want.  How can we go about filling that void