David,
I do technical writing and editing, too. I’ve long been hoping to contribute on this front (but am not retired), and am glad that you have beaten me to it! Feel free to provoke me into action if you see particular places where an extra pair of critical eyes might help.
There’s a lot of scope to improve conciseness and precision throughout the tutorials, and some opportunity for pedagogical restrategising. My last academic job was as an educationist (I’m actually an historian of knowledge, focused mainly on visual, material and bodily ways of knowing) so you’re welcome to make use of that, too, if you want to consider possibilities together.
Alistair
On 10/08/2023, at 5:06 AM, Maren Hachmann maren@goos-habermann.de wrote:
Hi David,
wonderful!
Find the tutorials with build instructions here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/documentation
(no MS Word, though - but XML, as they are delivered as editable SVG files, and additionally rendered to HTML)
If you do not want to go as far as editing the XML yourself, open an issue in that repository with your suggestions.
Maren (Inkscape docs co-maintainer)
Am 09.08.23 um 18:14 schrieb David Kirk:
Hi Inkscape team, I am a new user to Inkscape and I have started working through the tutorials, and I have found that they are a little bit out of date, and give instruction that I think are no longer accurate. Since I have the unique perspective of a first time user, I am willing to propose edits to these tutorials if there was someone I could work with to oversee them so I don't make things worse. I am a recently retired engineer (Electronics/mechanical/manufacturing) so I am familiar with product development cycles and testing. I have also done a fair amount of technical writing. If I could get the tutorial in an editable form, like MS Word, I could do markups and forward to an editor for review and possible updates. Thanks David _______________________________________________ Inkscape Users mailing list -- inkscape-user@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-user-leave@lists.inkscape.org
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