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Christian Moll on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Contributions-to-the-ImageJ-User-Guide-tp3689353p3689355.html
Hello Tiago,
very nice approach. Due to I am today a little bit limited in time. I
will keep it short.
>I'm extremely found of the IJ wiki. I was thrilled when Christian
announced the
new version, with the neat pdf converter.
We also thought about doing a printable version of the wiki. That's why be
implemented the pdf option.
>- I'll populate the IJ wiki with my notes
(any thoughts on how to do that programmatically?)
That's not clear for me. What do you mean with programmatically? Do you
want to change the content of various pages by a script or something
similar? Then I have to say no, that's not possible. But as I see you are
already registered in the wiki. So you are free to edit the pages and
mature them.
There is also a possibility to create an "editor page", where all single
pages can be collected and sorted. This page could then be used to
generate a pdf of the complete collection.
We also tested an other pdf export for the wiki, which directly generates
LaTex. But therefore the pages have to be very precisely written. You have
to choose the Heading-Level correctly and some other issues. So we do not
use this plugin in a public wiki, because you have to invest very much
time in correcting page, so that they can be compiled in LaTex.
>- Create or edit a "GUI Command" entry on the wiki, that I could then use
<
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=gui:start>
You need something like that:
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=gui:start2
Right? If it is laike that we can easily setup an area for different
editions of printable versions of the wiki.
For any further questions, feel free to mail me.
Best regards,
Christian and the ImageJdocu team
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Re: Contributions to the ImageJ User Guide
First of all thank you all for your comments.
I will try to answer to all of you, so forgive me for not doing it
individually.
I am really sorry if my call sounded dubious:
- I do not expect any monetary profit from this
- I do want this to be open, to be a community effort. Thats the only
reason,
why this was announced here in first place.
Johannes has offered to host the pdf source on a Git repository. I think
that
would be the way to go.
The reason I involuntary "forked" the documentation is just casual. I had
to
assemble some pages for a small group of people and the thing just grew
out
of control. :)
I'm extremely found of the IJ wiki. I was thrilled when Christian
announced the
new version, with the neat pdf converter.
But for understandable reasons I did not start this document there
(neither any
of several others who have started similar documents). If I had predicted
the
evolution of the guide, then I would have though in much detail about the
writing process...
So this is how I 'envision' the future of the ImageJ manual (please bear
with my
personal opinion), even if I did not think how to implement it:
- I'll populate the IJ wiki with my notes
(any thoughts on how to do that programmatically?)
- We all mature the wiki pages.
- In parallel, the same process happens with the LaTeX source (which
I
predict will have less participants).
- At whatever periodicity, we feedback both, and hopefully, lets say
once a
year, a new document can be compiled and the HTML version could be
sent to
Wayne.
- I also think an overloaded guide won't be useful to the average
user, so
if the documentation starts to grow I would append it to a second
manual, "The Advanced User guide" or something like that.
But honestly in the immediate run I would like to just finish what I have.
In my
naive perception of things, if you identify yourself with this right away
and
want to contribute, you could:
- Annotate the draft (Jarnal, Skim, Xournal, Foxit, Acrobat, etc.) and
send
me your comments.
- Create or edit a "GUI Command" entry on the wiki, that I could then
use
<
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/doku.php?id=gui:start>
- Just email me your notes in whatever format you prefer.
Otherwise, if you need the files I can upload them somewhere or we could
start
the repository right away. Or I can create an account on ScribTeX or
MonkeyTeX,
(use dropbox?) and would make it collaborative that way.
Let me know what you think,
Tiago