[Bf-docboard] Update

[Bart Veldhuizen]

Noted!

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 06:12, Alex Heizer wrote:
> oops, I'll also work on the Quickstart tutorial for the Introduction
> section. :)
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> Alex Heizer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Bart Veldhuizen wrote:
> > > Hi Alex,
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 19:51, Alex Heizer wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > I can work on some stuff. For example, I can do a Quickstart tutorial 
> > > > (Introduction section) if nobody's working on it already. I'd like to 
> > > > help out with any Mac OSX oddities and variations, such as 
> > > > <option>-<mouseclick> to restrict movement or scaling along an axis, 
> > > > rather than middle-button-click. I can work on some Mesh Modeling 
> > > > (Editmode, Extrude, Proportional editing tool) and/or Animation 
> > > > (Keyframe or Path) pages, as well, if nobody is working on them. 
> > > > Although these have a great basis already from the text in the book.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Cool! Either of these topics are still available, so the choice is
> > > yours.. Maybe we can create some OS-specific chapters to capture the
> > > oddities of each? We can later re-use those issues in other chapters,
> > > but also as stand-alone chapters it would make great material. I can add
> > > something to the table of contents if you like.
> > 
> > However you want to do the OS X stuff is fine with me. I can see the
> > advantages either way between having a separate section for the
> > differences (I'm not sure if the other OSes have such quirks), and
> > having things inline with the other chapters. Having a separate
> > section makes it easy for an updater (one person maintaining it) and
> > easy for a user to say "what are all the things I need to watch out
> > for?". But having all of the differences right there in the regular
> > chapters makes it smoother for an end user to read along without
> > interrupting the flow ( "To select a vertex, RMB-click it
> > (command-click in OSX)"), similar to the traditional way authors
> > have distinguished between Windows and Mac functions. Of course,
> > this makes it a little more work to update other people's sections,
> > but having separate sections means at least some of the material
> > will be duplicated if it is to make sense to the end user. Either
> > way is good and has its advantages and disadvantages. Anyone else
> > writing the other pages have any input about it, since it may affect
> > their workload?
> > 
> > I'll start getting the Editmode, Extrude, Proportional editing tool,
> > Keyframe and Path pages together then. If nobody is working on the
> > rest of the Mesh Modeling or Animation sections by the time I get
> > done with these, I'll move on to them.
> > 
> > > > Any word of the return of a Linux browser plugin?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Not yet.. 
> > 
> > Darn. Just thought I'd ask. :)
> > 
> > Alex
> > 
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Bart Veldhuizen <bart@vrotvrot.com>