Re: manual with all of the charting modules

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On 15-02-26 10:52 AM, Adrian Custer wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Hope you are having fun with Gnumeric.
>
> The manual is in a sorry state. We did massive work writing it many 
> years ago but, since then, little has been done to maintain it.
I don't think that that is a proper description what has happened. There 
have been quite significant corrections and updates done to the manual.

Pivot table are not included because Gnumeric does not have them. The 
chart section hasn't seen many update but quite a few of the other 
section have been updated.

Andreas

> While the manual says version 1.12, that is merely because the version 
> number is automatically updated on release; most of the content and 
> screenshots come from a much earlier version. Also, because the manual 
> is quite large, it is often omitted from being installed or comes in a 
> separate package and, under windows, I am not sure the automatic links 
> ever worked correctly.
>
> I am not sure of the state of Pivot tables in Gnumeric 1.12. However, 
> they did not exist when the manual was last seriously updated so it is 
> likely that they are not discussed at all in the manual even if they 
> do exist.
>
> Sorry about the state of disarray. I've been meaning for years to 
> spend a week or so bringing things up to date, at least enough to make 
> clear when topics are missing. However, somehow I never get around to it.
>
> cheers,
>   ~adrian
>
>
> On 2/26/15 9:16 AM, ftr wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Working with gnumeric 1.12 under windows I look for a manual that
> > explains all of the charting modules, in particular matrix, statistics
> > plots, contour plot.
> >
> > I found a manual for version 1.12 :
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnumeric/stable/sect-graphs-overview-types.html.en#sect-graphs-overview-types-statistics 
> >
> >
> > but it does not treat all of the charting modules that version 1.12
> > runs  (work in progress).
> > In my French version a matrix plot is shown between the contour and the
> > min-max plot. The Aide button links to the error message "topic
> > chapter-graphs not found".
> > Where can I get a manual ?
> >
> > Second question: What do you get with Data > table ? I guess it is
> > something like a pivot table in Libreoffice ? I look for its equivalent
> > in gnumeric.
> > I did not find an entry in the help, so any hint would be appreciated.
> >
> > TIA
> > ftr
> >
> >
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