Re: Documentation

Yes, I believe that I do have the most up-to-date documentation. i
downloaded it [CVS] the other night from the abisource site

I wrote some of it a few years ago. That work, and some of the other files
could use an update. I attempted to contact David Chart, but his e-mail
address appears not to work.

Leon Stedman

If "E.U." was the answer, you asked the wrong question.
Let's Leave!

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Ryan Pavlik wrote:

> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:29:39 -0500
> From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net>
> To: Leon Stedman <leon@leons.uklinux.net>
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Documentation
>
> Leon Stedman wrote:
> > I could not find an RPM package for my system so I compiled from source.
> > Several little somethings went wrong along the way, but eventually all
> > worked.
> >
> > I could not, however, get printing to work just as I expected it to, so I
> > turned to the fine documentation. This appears to be way out of date and
> > could be improved in many respects. I would like to do this! Whom do I
> > contact, does anyone know?
> >
> > The printing works better now that a did a further compile!
> >
> >
> > Leon Stedman
> >
> >
> There have been a couple attempts to refactor the documentation - if you
> want to see immediate improvements, make patches to the files in the
> "abiword-docs" module (this is all in ABW format) I think there is a
> DocBook manual started but not a suitable replacement yet. Build docs
> should be in abi/docs and should be relatively up to date. ./configure
> --help also can help with such technical matters.
>
> Ryan
>
> --
> Ryan Pavlik
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> AbiWord Community Outreach Project: www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/
>
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> -- Helen Keller
>
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>

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