Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
I agree, please file this bug and mark it STRING in keywords so we know a string change is needed. Chris Derek Atkins wrote: Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 1) There appears to be inconsistencies in screen names and enter forms using "commodity" and "security". Working through

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-12 Thread Tim Wunder
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:57 pm, someone claiming to be Bengt Thuree wrote: > On On, 2006-04-12, 11:41, David Herman skrev: > > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:45 -0600, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > > > Also - there is one screen that I have NOT been able to screen capture- > > the options screen with the pu

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-12 Thread Bengt Thuree
On On, 2006-04-12, 11:41, David Herman skrev: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:45 -0600, Chris Lyttle wrote: > The text changes are OK - I think, however I had some comments about the > images. Specifically the title of the "window" i.e file names. Give me > a day or two to cleanup. > What do you thi

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-11 Thread Bengt Thuree
On On, 2006-04-12, 11:41, David Herman skrev: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:45 -0600, Chris Lyttle wrote: > Also - there is one screen that I have NOT been able to screen capture- > the options screen with the pull-down on the price date. Alt-PrtScrn or > PrtScrn do not operate - any other suggesti

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-11 Thread David Herman
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 22:45 -0600, Chris Lyttle wrote: > First of all Dave thanks a lot for doing this. If you want to submit > updates to the docs you can email them to me and I'll commit them to svn. > The text changes are OK - I think, however I had some comments about the images. Specificall

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-11 Thread Derek Atkins
Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 1) There appears to be inconsistencies in screen names and enter forms >> using "commodity" and "security". Working through creating new security >> account (Guide 8.4.2) brings up a screen (New Account) to select >> commodity, then a screen labeled "Se

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-10 Thread Chris Lyttle
No you didnt miss anything, its fairly normal for only one or two people to be editing docs. Chris Bengt Thuree wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 08:25 -0600, David Herman wrote: Guess I investigate the EMACS tools, need to learn EMACS anyway. I am getting that feeling as well... Used EM

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-10 Thread Chris Lyttle
First of all Dave thanks a lot for doing this. If you want to submit updates to the docs you can email them to me and I'll commit them to svn. David Herman wrote: I have a archive of my changes to the Concept/User Guide for GnuCash Chapter 8 (Investments). I've updated the screenshots, install

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-10 Thread Derek Atkins
David Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnucash-doc-svn]$ svn diff > Index: guide/C/figures/invest_stockvalue_report.png > === > Cannot display: file marked as a binary type. > svn:mime-type = image/png Yea, you

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-10 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 08:25 -0600, David Herman wrote: > Guess I investigate the EMACS tools, need to learn EMACS anyway. I am getting that feeling as well... Used EMACS long time ago, but now I am a VI user, but feels weird to use VI/EMACS in a full GUI environment... Unless I am deep into Unix c

Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-10 Thread David Herman
I use gedit 2.10.2. Has some XML support, show balanced statements. Sorry I really used 1.8.4 guess I just made an error in naming the directory, and didn't check the diff when writing the e-mail. Guess I investigate the EMACS tools, need to learn EMACS anyway. Dave Surprised at lack of respon

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-09 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:00 -0600, David Herman wrote: > The archive contains the new screenshots images, a DIFF between new XML > and the XML from 1.8.5 (the latest doc I found), and the new > "ch_invest.xml". 1.8.5 ?? I can only find 1.8.4! What am I missing? /Bengt _

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-09 Thread Josh Sled
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 23:13 +0800, Bengt Thuree wrote: > What tool did you use to modify the docbook? > A plain text editor like emacs, vi, gedit, scite or similar? > Or xml/docbook specific editor like conglomerate? > I tried conglomerate and liked it, but it do not show all the various > tags/tex

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-09 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:00 -0600, David Herman wrote: > I have a archive of my changes to the Concept/User Guide for GnuCash > Chapter 8 (Investments). I've updated the screenshots, installed the > comments in the BZ reports that I've seen and modified some of the > grammar/spelling (also probabl

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-04-08 Thread David Herman
I have a archive of my changes to the Concept/User Guide for GnuCash Chapter 8 (Investments). I've updated the screenshots, installed the comments in the BZ reports that I've seen and modified some of the grammar/spelling (also probably inserted some errors of mine). The archive contains the new

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-03-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting David Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are the existing screen shots reasonably stable? What do you mean by "reasonably stable?" I think we probably need a completely new set of screen shots for the 2.0 release. Any major changes to icon or overall GUI ? Yeah.. Gtk1 -> Gtk2. I would

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-03-24 Thread David Herman
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 18:56 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > [snip] > > Are the existing screen shots reasonably stable? > > What do you mean by "reasonably stable?" I think we probably need a > completely > new set of screen shots for the 2.0 release. > Any major changes to icon or overal

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-03-23 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Fr, 2006-03-24, 04:04, Dave Herman skrev: > Prompted by setting up simple account tree for testing and several > questions here and on the user list, I started to review > the GnuCash User Guide. While I am not a "tech writer", I could assist > by updating some of the screen shots and adding >

Re: Question on modifing User Guide

2006-03-23 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Quoting Dave Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Prompted by setting up simple account tree for testing and several questions here and on the user list, I started to review the GnuCash User Guide. While I am not a "tech writer", I could assist by updating some of the screen shots and adding some

Question on modifing User Guide

2006-03-23 Thread Dave Herman
Prompted by setting up simple account tree for testing and several questions here and on the user list, I started to review the GnuCash User Guide. While I am not a "tech writer", I could assist by updating some of the screen shots and adding some examples. I expect there are many others "reade