Help page design, and the future of the Ubuntu Desktop Guide

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Aug 1, 2006, at 1:09 AM, Matthew East wrote:
> ...
> * Matthew East:
>>
>> For the next release, what I propose we do is this:
>>
>>  * Generally speaking, work with the existing guides but bear in mind
>> Matthew's comments about how to write good help, and improve the 
>> guides accordingly.
>> ...
> Does anyone have any more comments about this for Ubuntu? If not, can 
> we go ahead and start making it happen?
> ...

I haven't seen anyone address my original question yet. :-) That is, 
what should be done with the printed version of the Ubuntu Desktop 
Guide?
>
> (1) Fork it from the on-screen version, so that it can be given proper
>     book treatment (chapters, footnotes, screenshots, diagrams, etc).
> (2) Continue it as a quirkier, recipe-book-style, printed copy of every
>     help page, without chapter introductions and the like.
> (3) Retire it, leaving the job of publishing books to Apress, O'Reilly,
>     Canonical and Prentice Hall, Addison-Wesley, etc.
>     <http://urlx.org/amazon.com/d9ea0>

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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