Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Preparing for 12.10 series

2012-08-24 Thread Patrick Dickey
Well my initial attempt (the blurry ones) was because I had everything running in a virtual machine, and I was taking the screenshots from my host machine (of the window). I think when I was able to take the screenshots from inside of the virtual machine itself, they came out better. I don't think

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Contribution to improve the manual

2012-08-24 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Tino. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Tino Schieber wrote: > Now, my problem is, that I actually just have installed TeX Live 2009 > out of the repositories. I’m using Linux Mint 11 (Katya). Is it > necessary to install TeX Live 2011 manually or are there other ways? There are currently

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Contribution to improve the manual

2012-08-24 Thread Patrick Dickey
If I remember correctly (and I'm sure Kevin, John, or someone else will correct this), the ubuntu repository version isn't the full version (or at least doesn't have some of the needed features). Here is the code to a bash script that *should* take care of the installation for you. It's assuming

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Preparing for 12.10 series

2012-08-24 Thread c7p
Cool, i think the job can be done by two of you if you don't need more volunteers. My screenshots also seemed blurry but i concluded that the problem wasn't my computer. Usually the "wider" screenshots seemed better on pdf, at least that's my impression. By the way you can play around with differ

[Ubuntu-manual] Contribution to improve the manual

2012-08-24 Thread Tino Schieber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I would like to contribute to the project. My effort would be to improve the german version. I have a strong eye on typographical issues. I’ve got the following message after running install-pkgs.sh: > sh install-pkgs.sh Checking TeX Live v

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04 - Second Edition is now available!

2012-08-24 Thread Carsten Gerlach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Am 24.08.2012 01:06, schrieb Kevin Godby: > Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04 - Second Edition has been > published! Thanks, Kevin, for your hard work last night! Just in time with Ubuntu 12.04.1 it was online. :-) Our manual is also mentioned

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Preparing for 12.10 series

2012-08-24 Thread Carsten Gerlach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Am 23.08.2012 13:35, schrieb Patrick Dickey: > Yep, Carsten did volunteer. Of course he hoped there would be one > person more also. Yes, that's right, I raised my hand. :-) > I would volunteer, but last time my screenshots all came out > blurr

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Meeting new authors and editors

2012-08-24 Thread c7p
The meeting will take place on our irc channel on freenode.net, #ubuntu-manual There are several guides on the net on how to connect to an irc channel. If you can't connect, simply use http://webchat.freenode.net/ You can see the local time here http://www.doodle.com/d2z7mennusdcc2ne . It was bad

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04 - Second Edition is now available!

2012-08-24 Thread Patrick Dickey
Awesome news Kevin. Now, hopefully you'll have a bit of time to relax. Hows' the test site coming along (I haven't heard anything from either you or Paddy for a while)? Have a great day:) Patrick. On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 18:06 -0500, Kevin Godby wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > Getting Started with

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Meeting new authors and editors

2012-08-24 Thread c7p
Meeting poll will close in 4 hours ! Vote if you didn't. --John 2012/8/22 c7p > Hello all, > > we've many new members in the project. > The 12.10 series has already started, so i think this weekend is a great > opportunity to organize a meeting/gathering to meet these people. > It's great for a