Re: [Inkscape-docs] minor change of workflow for beginners guide?

25 Jul 2017

      Hi.
I agree. There should be a final proof read that will include everything
and should make it easy for a beginner to follow but there are some text
and grammar issues that needs to be sorted before then.
Thank you.
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Reidar Vik <trostereiretvik@...2...>
wrote:
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Maybe a good idea, but it can be wise to look briefely trough the text at
this stage to fix some text issues. Hopefully the one who makes the
illustrations don't have to do things twice.
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2017-07-24 4:02 GMT+02:00 brynn <brynn@...78...>:
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Hi Friends,
       I had initially started with proofreading for the new beginners
guide, but quickly found it was very difficult to do, without taking the
graphics into account.  Without knowing where the images are going to be
placed and whether they might have captions or not, it's hard to make the
text fit well.
   Especially when the goal is to be brief and clear with the text,

and not load it with a lot of technical details.  One way to make it
simple, is to use graphics wisely.  But if the graphic for a particular
item is far away from the text on the page, it could backfire, and make it
more difficult to understand.
   I (or anyone) could proofread the text by itself.  But after the

layout and styling teams do their jobs, and place the images on the pages,
the text and graphics may or may not work well together.  Unless that's
part of the style and layout teams' jobs?  But it seems like that puts a
lot of work on their plates?
   So I want to propose doing the proofreading as the final step.

I'm not familiar with writing books or manuals.  But for general text
documents, like articles or theses, it seems like proofreading is usually
the final step.  So I thought it couldn't hurt to make the suggestion.
   I wasn't sure whether to make this an Issue in the gitlab.  It

seems like not very many of the Docs team or guide-writing team is looking
there.  So I wanted to at least start the discussion where the widest
number of people can see it.  If a formal Issue is needed, I'll be glad to
make one.
   Anyway, just a thought.

Thanks for listening,
brynn

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