Re: User Guide help

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au> wrote:

> 
> On 24/03/2006, at 11:20 PM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> 
> > <rant on>
> > It's not surprising that nobody works in docs,
> given
> > that
> >
> > a) information on part of the interface simply
> can't
> > be found, or nobody can adequately explain it to
> me,
> > and the original coder has dropped off the face of
> the
> > earth
> > b) parts of the UI can't be cleaned up because of
> some
> > arcane legacy issue
> 
> c) authors don't close their tags
> 
> ;)
> 
> Seriously, I can understand your frustration.
> Documentation and  
> translation have this in common, that we try to
> bridge the gap  
> between the software and the user. Sometimes the gap
> is more like a  
> chasm.

Absolutely.
Sometimes there are bugs in the interface that we have
to diplomatically gloss over in the docs.
Sometimes they're not even bugs, they're geekery that
the average user doesn't understand or care about, but
that we seem to be stuck with :(


	
	
		
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