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Re: Info tutorial is out of date


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Info tutorial is out of date
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:43:29 +0300

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:37:27 -0700
> 
>     >     > I see no reason why we can't have two versions of the tutorial.
>     >
>     >     One reason is that it's not easy to present the right one
>     >     to the user based on her reader.  Remember: learning Info is a
>     >     bootstrap-kind of problem--you learn to use a tool by using
>     >     that same tool. If we don't
>     >     make the beginning of the bootstrap 110% reliable (which includes
>     >     showing the right manual), the results will be catastrophic.
>     >
>     > So, how do you deal with that problem currently, since there
>     > are apparently already two manuals?
> 
>     By having the Info manual be the first item in the top-level menu.
> 
> And? That sounds OK to me.

It's okay as long as we have only one such manual.  You suggested that
the basics be divided between two.




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