http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Contributions-to-the-ImageJ-User-Guide-tp3689353p3689356.html
collaboratively, would help everyone. Using the ImageJ Documentation Wiki
makes a lot of sense. My main concern with your proposal is keeping two
parallel sources. Would it be easier to autogenerate the print version from
> 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
>