[ gpsdrive ] user manual

[Hamish]

Chris h wrote:
> Started work on a basic user manual based on 2.10pre5svn . 
> 
> The rough outline is currently in progress and available on
> the wiki. 
> http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/gpsdrive/index.php?title=User_Manual
> 
> Suggestions and comments welcomed. 

Hi,

I'd suggest renaming it something other than "User Manual", that name
is already held by the man page. Perhaps user guide or beginner's guide?

I'd also suggest linking to relevant #section of the html man page* from
each wiki subsection, as needed. (see redundancy comment below)
For the Help->Help info I'd suggest just cut & paste, it's not easy to
automatically pull that.

to create a thumbnail of an image add "|450px" after the filename to
shrink it to, e.g., 450 pixels wide.

[*] I've added a script to automatically download the latest man page
from SVN and convert it into .txt and .html version. Currently that
happens on SF but I need to run it manually after each edit in SVN.
Hopefully that will happen automatically in a daily cron job one day.


> A question. What is the proper term of the data boxes at the bottom of
> main screen. There are two rows, the fist being preset but variable and
> the second being preset. What is the correct term for these boxes?

AFAIK they were being called the dashboard.


> Marine_Howto

you can probably link into the Data_sources, Creating_maps, and other
pages quite a bit, and/or merge content back or forth. The idea being
to limit redundancy/double effort/maintenance. No need to explain S-57
four times..


Hamish