Documentation: report options description place

Dmitry Pavlov zeldigas at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 16:38:06 EST 2014


Thank you for help! Made a pull request to gnucash-docs


2014-03-02 0:20 GMT+04:00 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>:

>
> On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Dmitry Pavlov <zeldigas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm working on help documentation for budget report as an addition to my
> > improvements <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/2> for it.
> Currently
> > there is no description neither in help nor in tutorial, so I want to add
> > it and describe this report specific options -- what do they do and how
> > they affect report.
> > I found the place to put report description (help_ch_reports.xml), but I
> > doubt if it's a good place to put detailed information about options,
> right
> > after the main text. May be there is some better place?
> > Current format of options description is a list of "option name --- what
> > does this option do” elements
>
> There’s a section called Customizing Reports and Graphs with a bunch of
> bullet points about the options that apply to most of the reports. Since
> few of the reports have much descriptive material in the docs, you could
> describe any special options after the report description and refer the
> reader to that section for the rest.
>
> >
> > BTW, do you accept document changes as pull requests on github?
>
> Sure, why not?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls




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С уважением,
Дмитрий Павлов


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