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Re: Reference manual + tutorials
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Reference manual + tutorials |
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Sun, 03 Jun 2018 22:40:57 +0200 |
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Hello,
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Yes, this can work. It’s hard for me to imagine where one would put
> prose that resembles a tutorial in our current manual. It currently
> leans very heavily towards a reference manual, which discourages me from
> adding elaborate examples.
>
> There’s also the danger of interrupting the flow with too many big
> inline examples. Currently, it is easy to understand the big picture
> because the prose isn’t separated by step for step instructions.
Yeah, I agree.
> It would be sad to miss out on good tutorials just because they don’t
> fit into the current manual; and it would be just as sad to clutter the
> manual by filling it with tutorials that would seem out of place.
Sure. So I think those tutorials that don’t fit in the manual should
really have their own life, and that’d be great!
Ludo’.
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