To discuss (among others, not yet listed here)

• Here opens the discussion of how and what to extract from the webpage to get content for the print manual.

• Some structural issues to find an optimal way to organize the information

  • (max) Not so very confinced, but... how about some kind of public rating system? like "did this solve your problem?"
  • (ampop) the tiki has a built in rating system. should we enable it?

• Design issues. I assure you, that it will be perfectly readable and that I'm not going to use just black and white as "colours".

  • (max) yeah, grey, too! (As I'd generally vote for a Version that's also a PDF, that means that the basic color schemes should be B/W-Printer-friendly, too! On paper, color costs.
  • (ampop) the color cost issue is a big one. but color is needed by example patches, project exibition, diagrams, etc... and color makes things prettier
  • (sbn)but should really be backwards compatible with b/w copies. patterns!

• Technical issues

  • (max) A few Preferences for the choice of engine:

  • Open Source over Proprietary: OpenOffice, Ghostscript rather than PDFLib, FrameMaker, InDesign et al.

  • (ampop) I would also prefer OpenSource Tools. I'll have to do some recherce!

  • What about multiplatformability? PDF ranks first. after that, nothing. or?

  • (ampop) Just PDF. What else? Seond Option is html which is this page.

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