[mapserver-dev] Draft of downloadable users manual]

[Jeff McKenna]

SteveL,

I have time and I would like to continue this users manual work, so  
let me know your comments on it.

-jeff





On 11-Apr-08, at 1:48 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

> Sorry I forgot to mention that I checked in the Open Office .odt  
> file I used to create the pdf, in SVN at /trunk/docs/references/ 
> users-manual/.  I believe MS Word has a downloadable plugin for that  
> Open Document format now.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Jeff McKenna  
> <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Draft of downloadable users manual
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:57:46 -0500
> From: Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
> To: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca>
> References: <47FBD9CA.9020306 at dmsolutions.ca>
>
> Jeff: Would it be possible to get a copy of this in a format that  
> would be easier to mark up (e.g. Word)? That
> would make it easier to take a red pen to it. I don't think sending  
> comments like "on page 10, paragraph 5, ..."
> will be very efficient. I'd rather just open it up and insert  
> comments inline. You can do some of that with Acrobat
> but the Reader version is kinda limiting.
>
> Steve
>
> On 4/8/2008 at 3:47 PM, in message <47FBD9CA. 
> 9020306 at dmsolutions.ca>, Jeff
> McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> An initial draft of the users manual can be found at: http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/docs/mapserver-users-manual.pdf 
>  (1MB)
>
> Some comments:
>
> - has gaping holes
> - plan is to use SteveL's demo as part of the missing 'application'  
> section
> - most if not all examples in this doc were manually executed, and  
> in many cases i've updated the associated existing website docs  
> accordingly
> - many more existing website docs will be ported into the Appendix
>
> I hope you guys think it is becoming useful.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
>

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