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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: How to pleasantly edit the user's guide?

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From: "Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:34:18 +0100
From: Brad Hards
|
|On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:57 am, Ulf Lamping wrote:
|> > That's a pity, as I've made a lot of changes to the GUI in the
last
|> > months, and the user's guide seems to
|> > be in an state of "please immediatly update me" ;-)
|> >
|> > I've downloaded the sources, but couldn't find an easy way to
edit
|> > these (the documentation for the documentation is quite worse
;-).
|> > When I understand it correct, these are Docbook sources in SGML
format.
|
|Docbook on SGML isn't much different to Docbook on XML.
|
|I have a partial update to the manual (including a reasonably large
|refactoring) and a lot of new screenshots. Unfortunately I got
distracted and
|haven't finished it, and it certainly doesn't reflect all Ulf's cool
new UI
|stuff.
|
|I have a makefile based build, and I'd be happy to send it to anyone
that
|wants to work on it, and provide assistance to get it building. Its a
4.5Meg
|tarball though...

If you can publish it on a server on the web, you can just send the
URI (ftp/http/https). Otherwise, feel free to "mailbomb" me with the
4.5 meg archive :)

Regards,

Olivier