[QGIS Commit] r8686 - docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide
svn_qgis at osgeo.org
svn_qgis at osgeo.org
Sun Jun 29 22:03:40 EDT 2008
Author: taraathan
Date: 2008-06-29 22:03:40 -0400 (Sun, 29 Jun 2008)
New Revision: 8686
Modified:
docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/conventions.tex
Log:
modified platform-specific macros, added more examples of usage
Modified: docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/conventions.tex
===================================================================
--- docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/conventions.tex 2008-06-30 02:02:25 UTC (rev 8685)
+++ docs/trunk/english_us/user_guide/conventions.tex 2008-06-30 02:03:40 UTC (rev 8686)
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
% vim: set textwidth=78 autoindent:
-
-% testing testing
-% testing svn commit
% options for boxes provided by fancybox package are:
% \fbox, \shadowbox, \doublebox, \ovalbox and \Ovalbox
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%8%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
@@ -20,9 +17,15 @@
\textbf{\textcolor{white}{#1}}}}
%
\setlength{\shadowsize}{2pt}%
-\newcommand{\nix}[1]{Under GNU/Linix, #1}
-\newcommand{\win}[1]{Under MS Windows, #1}
-\newcommand{\osx}[1]{Under Mac OS X, #1}
+% nix, win and osx for platform-specific documentation
+% old versions
+%\newcommand{\nix}[1]{Under GNU/Linix, #1}
+%\newcommand{\win}[1]{Under MS Windows, #1}
+%\newcommand{\osx}[1]{Under Mac OS X, #1}
+% new versions
+\newcommand{\nix}[1]{\includegraphics[height=5mm]{nix.eps} #1}
+\newcommand{\win}[1]{\includegraphics[height=5mm]{win.eps} #1}
+\newcommand{\osx}[1]{\includegraphics[height=5mm]{osx.eps} #1}
% button
\renewcommand{\button}[1]{%
\raisebox{-6pt}{%
@@ -288,13 +291,60 @@
\end{verbatim}
Platform-specific instructions are indicated as follow.
+GUI sequences and small amounts of text can be formatted inline: %
+Click \{\nix{}\win{File} \osx{QGIS}\} > Quit to %
+close QGIS. This indicates that on Linux, Unix and Windows platforms, %
+click the File menu option first, then Quit from the dropdown menu, while on %
+Macintosh OSX platforms, click the QGIS menu option first, then Quit from the %
+dropdown menu.
+
+Larger amounts of text may be formatted as a list:
+%A moderate amount of text may be formatted as a list:
\begin{itemize}
-\item \nix{do this.}
-\item \win{do that.}
+\item \nix{do this;}
+\item \win{do that;}
\item \osx{do something else.}
-\end{itemize}
+\end{itemize}
+or as paragraphs.
+%Larger amounts of text should be formatted as paragraphs:
+\nix{}Do this and this and this. Then do this
+and this and this
+and this and this
+and this and this
+and this and this.
+\win{}Do that. Then do that
+and that and that
+and that and that
+and that and that
+and that and that
+and that and that
+and that and that
+and that and that.
+\osx{}Do something else.
+Then do something else and
+something else and
+something else and
+something else and
+something else and
+something else and
+something else and
+something else and
+something else and
+something else and
+something else altogether.
+%Note: on OSX the following commands differ from *NIX and Windows
+%- options dialog is called preferences and is found under
+% QGIS->Preferences and the shortcut will always be Command , (command
+comma)
+%- What is usually the Help->about dialog will always be QGIS->About qgis
+%- File->Quit will always be QGIS->Quit qgis and the keyboard
+shortcut should always be Command Q
+%- Colour, font and file dialogs will have differences between platforms
+%- if other differences are discovered, please add here
+
+
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