ubuntu-doc Digest, Vol 33, Issue 5

[Edward Paulson]

> From: "Chris Fordham" <chris at xhost.com.au>
> Subject: Help to get a user guide
> To: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <op.ttf4dswvcznhgw at lister.dev.xhost.com.au>
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> People will keep asking this question because wiki/help is not  
> sufficient and it has a lot of redundancies.

Yes, you're quite right. And System->Help is poor.

> From: Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Help to get a user guide
> To: Edward Paulson <rosathetcar at aol.com>, ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <466663D2.9060809 at ubuntu.com>
>
> 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.

No it's not important it is in pdf or in other format.
I just wanted to say the System->Help and even help.ubuntu.com don't  
answers my questions.

> 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.

I should be glad if I have such skill.
Perhaps in future.:)

Matt

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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 08:16:55 -0500
> From: Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net>
> Subject: Re: Help to get a user guide
> To: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <200706050816.55092.jjesse at iserv.net>
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> While I agree with our documentation being far from perfect, how can we  
> goabout moving the topic based help into a pdf format.  Obviously with  
> theamount of emails/requests on IRC, etc that we are seeing we are not  
> meeting aneed that our customers want.  How can we go about filling that  
> void

I don't think you have to worry about it. Format that Ubuntu's yelp
uses is enough.
But if it is possible it would be good to put there more information.