Why newbies don't RTFM... 4743
Jean-David Beyer Oh common now. How many of you Windows whiners know all the DOS commands? Do you know where the DOS help system is...
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:09:11 -0400, Rick Moen
It seems similar to trying to fix an intricate bug - easy for someone to suggest a fix that breaks something else.
All good suggestions.
Thank you for that reference: I'll have to take a closer look at that tool. Yes. I thought it was a stunningly good idea, when Eric...
Yes, it's a good idea not to duplicate resources - except for development that relies on it for testing alternatives.
all sensible.
The current projects that inspire me most are those that do what Linux-OSS is strong at - interoperating and converting between formats. That's why I mentioned KDE's help browser as doing a great job of integrating man, info and KDE help pages. ESR's tool to convert manpages into DocBook format also seems like a good idea. I read that many of the LDP HowTo's are stored in this format too. It seems ideal for help documentation because it is renderable in many different forms - PS, PDF, HTML, etc - as well as being semantically tagged - understood by programs as well as human readers - which makes it possible to tweak the documentation display based on the user's skill level-requirements without the need for a separate set of "newbie-centred" documentation.
That's practical as well as altruistic and probably explains a lot of the atbreastude that leads to some c.o.l.m posters' disinterest (to put it mildly) in any focus on unsend users who don't intend on skilling up.
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