[Bf-docboard] Fwd: [B@rt's Blender News] Comment: "Blender Quickstart Guide"

[Ewout Fernhout]

First of all, thanks for letting us know, Bart!

> it is nice but essential things are missing :
> for camera : ctrl-0 (or ctrl alt 0 i don't remember)
> for mesh editing : the K menu (i find it more important than the ctrl e
> menu)
> for layers : they can be accessed by pressing the number/special characters
> keys above the letters on the keyboard

very true and good comments. I have been working on converting the
QuickStart to Scribus this week (on and off), and I ran into the fact
that everything is *very* packed on the page. In the original InDesign
document, Pierre-Luc messed with the letterspacing to make it as small
as possible without the reader noticing. This is not necessairily a
bad thing, but since translations are a very realistic option, this
will very likely become a problem. Also, with updates like these, it
just won't fit anymore.

So, my proposal is to make it a two-page folder. This way we have
(almost) twice the space and we won't have to worry about letter
spacing, we can even use a bigger font (right now it's 7pt.), and
translations can be done without messing with the layout.
We can also make it two normal pages, making it easier for the user to
print (no need to flip the page in the printer), but for the
quickstart it's nice to have it on one piece of paper, and making it a
folder will promote to do that. :o)

Pierre-Luc, and especially Frédéric and of course everybody else on
this list, I would like your comments on this.

Ewout