I think a regular Web Help file that is searchable and has an Index and TOC (via a Help Authoring Tool, aka, HAT) would be more useful than the book-like Help available now. I don’t have a HAT available but I bet the web pages that make up the Inkscape Manual could be easily imported (if they are available legally). Tutorials would be great but short of that a searchable Help file would be great.
sharpart
The website has a whoosh index available, if searching is desired, we could make it so.
On 30 June 2015 at 00:36, Roger Sharp <sharpenthis@...94...> wrote:
I think a regular Web Help file that is searchable and has an Index and TOC (via a Help Authoring Tool, aka, HAT) would be more useful than the book-like Help available now. I don’t have a HAT available but I bet the web pages that make up the Inkscape Manual could be easily imported (if they are available legally). Tutorials would be great but short of that a searchable Help file would be great.
sharpart
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Well, the current manual has both TOC and Index. While I sometimes get lost/confused with its TOC, the Index is fabulous and has never failed me!
I think it would be great to have Help files that go with Inkscape (offline). That would allow people to learn Inkscape on their own, in perhaps a more traditional way (for software). It seems to me that might serve users with more technical, engineering, math or "industrial" type backgrounds (who use the more technical kind of Inkscape features).
But for the artistic side of Inkscape, for people who use Inkscape for art/creative projects I'm not sure if that would be helpful. It seems to me this is where the step by step/tutorial/manual approach is more helpful.
And not that I see a big wide dividing line between these. They're 2 extremes of a continuum, with everyone falling in their own unique place along it.
But now thinking about that makes me curious. Wouldn't it be interesting to do even just a simple study or survey, to find out how Inkscape is being used?! After all, Inkscape has something for almost everyone. And such information could be helpful to this project in more ways than just deciding which type of documentation provide.
Anyway, just my "2 cents".
All best, brynn
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I think a regular Web Help file that is searchable and has an Index and TOC (via a Help Authoring Tool, aka, HAT) would be more useful than the book-like Help available now. I don’t have a HAT available but I bet the web pages that make up the Inkscape Manual could be easily imported (if they are available legally). Tutorials would be great but short of that a searchable Help file would be great.
sharpart
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