[scribus] manual

[John Culleton]

On Sunday 18 July 2010 12:30:37 Alexandre Prokoudine 
wrote:
> On 7/18/10, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > My hat is off to the Scribus team for having created a 
manual. Few open
> > source projects have a manual.
>
> Quite in opposite. Most GNOME and KDE applications 
have manuals. Just F1 :)
>
> > Most don't even have PDFs. At least half
> > don't even have a help file.
>
> Producing a PDF out of DocBook/XML from any 
GNOME/KDE app's help is
> not exactly rocket science.
>
> > Some would create documentation, but hate to write, or 
can't
> > write at all. To most it never occurs that documentation 
is important.
>
> Writing documentation is not job of a programmer. Then 
don't have to
> even think about it.

In my days as a programming supervisor, it was considered 
good form to create user documentation first, then do the 
coding to fit. For program documentation (HIPO diagram, 
flow chart, Decision Logic tables etc.) that was generally 
done and approved before coding started.

In today's world things are different, but the person who 
understands the functionality is still the best person to write 
the user guide. I have never understood the unwillingness of 
programmers to write user guides. After all, English (or 
whatever) is just another language, like C or Python.

John Culleton
Wexford Press
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