Re: documentation for novice and newbies

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

Douglas Allan Tutty said...
> Thanks all for the posts, some of which I'll reply to sepately.
> 
> If a wiki is designed only to make a wiki, then someone can't print out
> or download to a second computer one big document to have with them when
> they try to do an install.  Personally, I don't like wikis because if I
> want to see the next page I have to go back on line to get it.  I like
> to download over night and read in the day, I don't do a lot of
> online reading since I'm on dialup and need the phone line.  
> 
> So if we have a wiki it is difficult to produce an html tarball, pdf, or
> .deb of a snapshot of the wiki.

I've already said this before, but this isn't so.

>  Some have said that some wikis do this.
> I haven't seen this option on either newbiedoc or wiki.d.o which I think
> are the two likely places we would have a wiki if we didn't do our own
> on alioth.  
> 
> On the other hand, anybody who wants to can add to the wiki.

Best to pick the tool that provides the features that you require from 
the outset, imo.

Anyway, good luck with this. I'm going to sign off.

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Cheers,
Marc