Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Manual as a pdf

[Asa Swain]

Nils, having a .pdf version of the manual is a great
idea. 

I think the content is pretty good, but it could use
some re-oganizing. I'm tempted to take a crack at it
myself, but I fear this is something that should have
been done months ago, instead of right before the 1.0
release. 

Glancing over it, I'd suggest putting the keybaord
shortcuts / controls section at the end. I'd start
with a beautiful cover page of the wesnoth logo. Then
I'd have a letter written by Dave or someone else
summarizing wesnoth and thanking the player for trying
the game. I think it would be useful is players got a
general idea of what the game is like. Then you can
get into specific game mechanics.

What the timetable on the manual? I assume that if
translators have to translate it before the release
then it has to be finished by yesterday?

Technically, this manual is fine for now. Development
isn't going to cease post 1.0. But I bet there are
better writers / english majors than me who could
re-write the manual and make it more readable.

-Asa 



--- Nils Kneuper <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> Now that we are heading for 1.0 it maybe good, to
> have the manual in a
> format that is used to non-linux users, too. I
> copied all the stuff
> from the "deafult" manual into an open office
> document, made a real
> table out of the two, changed the links to the old
> wiki to the ones in
> the new and exported the file as a pdf. Please have
> a look at the
> files, especially the fonts. I used "Times New
> Roman" and we are for
> sure not allowed to use that one. Or am I wrong
> about this?
> I attach the open-office document and the pdf in a
> .zip.
> Greets,
> Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic>
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