Hi Hylton, On Dienstag, 15. Mai 2007, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Sorry for the delay in replying.
Not a problem. :)
On Dienstag, 8. Mai 2007, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Have you looked into the Lessons for Lizards project? It might be an excellent way to get the information you consider important into an easily-accessible format.....
I have, and find that it is not categorised and as structured as I would have expected and the menu is faar too long as I am almost sure many of the subheadings could be grouped under a single parent heading.
We have started it only a few months ago so it takes time everybody get used to it. It might look a bit unbalanced.
OK, although I think with a better structure of what topics ned writing on would be better as then writers can choose and be allocated to a writing/contributing to a task.
We have a template that each topic should use, see here: https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/lfl/trunk/common/xml/topic-template.xml The idea was to create chapters that deal with certain topics like Installation, Networking, System Administration, etc. If someone writes a topic it is easier to include it under an available category. I think the structure of the above template should be sufficient for many topics. Do you think there is anything missing?
Do you have something special in mind? I am very interested in listing to your suggestions. Could you elaborate your ideas a bit more? Is it the structure itself or the content of some articles, or anything else?
Thank you for taking the time to listen. As I said earlier, I think it is the structure itself. The online book/manual is going to be an ever changing and growing, so readers need to know where to look for help on the problem they are experiencing, as opposed to having to basically scour the whole manual.
Ok. Do you have an example that illustrates your problem? I am not sure if I understand your issue completely.
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I had a look and seem to fit in as a designer but more for the layout/structure of the LFL book.
If you want to improve the stylesheets or need a place for your ideas I can give you access to the Subversion repository. Send me a private mail with your login name.
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Well I think i would be more use in helping design the base structure or Contents that the various writers are going to write articles for. With the structure in place it can also give the writer a little guidance on how technical or newbie they have to write.
Everybody can participate in this project. In the end there should be consensus of what you propose. You can write a "Request for Improvements" and discuss it with others here on this mailinglist. :)
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Thanks for asking! :-)
Sorry, What did I ask ? :)
Well, that was a over-simplification on my side. :-) Bye, Tom -- Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX GmbH >o) Documentation Specialist Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ 90409 Nuernberg _\_v http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation_Team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org