Re: [Gnumed-devel] GnuMed documentation (Was: GNUmed 1.1.9 Maintenance Release)

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Thursday, January 12, 2012 03:53:31 PM Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 02:02:35PM +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > So given that it really is just one Megabyte and this is done by design
> > by the Wiki software I vote for just accepting it.
> 
> While I do not agree to this argument I now had a deeper look into the
> docs.  Please load the file
> 
>     client/doc/user-manual/index.html
> 
> into your browser.  None of the links is working not even the image
> works with the exception of the spammy "Chat here" stuff on the bottom
> right corner.  This link is useless.
> 

The links are indeed broken because it reference the wrong relative root path. 
This needs to be fixed.

> I also tried to load
> 
>     client/doc/user-manual/Gnumed/GnumedManual.html
> 
> The three main navigation links
> 
>     User Guide | Administrator Guide | Developer Guide
> 
> do not work as well. 

Same issue here. See above.

> Moreover the image we spended much time about to
> talk looks very ugly on the green background.

Yeah it is a transparent image which only look decent on white background and 
is about as old as GNUmed itself.

> The stuff looks as if
> somebody did not spended much love into it.
> 
True. It is a better then nothing wiki page to html converter.

> If this is the offline documentation that is presented to GNUmed user I
> would vote for dropping the gnumed-doc package at all and just provide a
> link to the Wiki.  This makes our previous discussion void and is most
> probably better for the user and the project.
> 

Dropping is not a good idea as there are people who do not have cheap and 
reliable internet connection.

Thanks for checking this stuff. I will see what I can do. 

Oh and by the way. the uglyness is reduced when we will export to html with 
skin plain (I have tested this)

Sebastian