User manual update: 2nd attempt

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Oct 27 06:21:33 PDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 03:15:23PM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> On 27/10/2015 14:54, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 02:44:14PM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> >>Subject: [PATCH 2/2]     [PATCH] User manual updates.
> >>
> >>     1) Put table of contents as a column on the left-hand side of the page
> >>        instead of as part of the user manual text.
> >>     2) Correct a some typoss.
> >>     3) Add three sentences to the Bluetooth download section to deal with
> >>        Bluetooth Pass Codes.
> >>
> >>This time I checked the patch file before submitting.......
> >>
> >>I would highly appreciate some feedback about the way the table of contents
> >>has been arranged.
> >I'd love to, but I guess for that I'd need the missing toc.css file :-)

Would you resend the patch with that file included? Or do a separate patch
with just the missing file?

> >>I have no idea whether this will appeal to the usual user of the
> >>manual.
> >I'm especially curious how this will look in the builtin browser on the
> >various platforms which I believe at this point is by far the main use of
> >the manual.
> 
> For IE on Win7, see:
> 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxuv32i27kthnf8/Win7.jpg?dl=0
> 
> The appearance is, I think, almost identical to my native view on Ubuntu
> using Firefox.

You misunderstand.

I think most people do NOT look at the manual in a browser, but they look
at it by hitting F1 from within Subsurface. So THAT is the appearance I am
most interested in.

/D


More information about the subsurface mailing list