Hi Carl (and Brynn, see bottom),

Am 04.06.2017 um 15:55 schrieb Carl Symons:

I have been holding off on any further editing and proofreading pending a resolution of the following information for myself.

There are places in the manual where additional information would be useful. Information that is not in the original version. Should it be added? If yes, to what extent should the content be tweaked?

This depends on the amount of detail you want to add. It should fit into the book's concept of giving 'just the necessary basics'.

Everything that is not strictly necessary, and does not *largely* improve the helpfulness of the book for someone who knows *nothing* about vector graphics, should be left to the detailed manual for advanced users.

This is just an introduction, for people who want to learn by do(odl)ing, and who will pick up the concepts as they advance. It is meant to be easy - in writing style, with short sentences, as well as in contents.

Would you like to pick up proofreading again where you left? You're welcome to make edits that fit the above description any time, without having to ask for permission.

Also ... there was some discussion about reorganizing the manual, changing chapter order and the like.

Apologies if this has been discussed previously. I've only recently joined the manual effort.

It would help to know if the project is mostly about translation or if it's more extensive than that. Guidance please.

@Brynn + Carl: I think we might postpone the changing of chapter order to a later point of time, so we will get a first, 'working' copy faster, and so people have a chance to gain insight into the conceptualization of the book. Also, that discussion got us sidetracked a bit, it seems, if it lead to Carl not knowing what to do next (and if).

If anything, changing the order is a matter of drag and drop, and can be done any time, it shouldn't stop us from working.

(I was thinking having a skeleton ready at Hackfest time might be useful, in case Elisa and Cédric would like to help work on this then - but of course, I don't know what their plans are for Paris).

Kind Regards, Maren