Question to european gnucash users

Christian Stimming stimming at tuhh.de
Wed Aug 6 16:00:31 CDT 2003


Fredrik Persson schrieb:
>>So, Fredrik, for the sake of other advanced non-check-using people like 
>>yourself, we await your documentation contributions.
> 
> 
> I'll see what I can do. A (bizarre) problem may be, that in scandinavia 
> (another country you won't find, yay!), a lot of people prefer the english 
> documentation since it is usually more complete and up to date. That, and 
> my point is valid with other european countries too, in which they speak 
> languages I've never even heard of, 
> 
> So, how about an english manual, written for europe?

Oh, Jon and the rest of the mailing list were totally discussing an 
english manual. You are openly invited to submit suggestions and patches 
to improve the current help documentation/manual, if you can make it 
"less check-centered".

Your point about preferred english documentation is probably valid for a 
lot of non-english-speaking users. However, the generalization may not 
be true for all countries. E.g. in Germany only the geeks will be happy 
with an english manual, but in order to reach a *large* user base 
projects will *have* to provide a German manual. Fortunately, this is 
what translators are for.

So please feel free to contribute changes to the English manual. Any 
translation in any different language will be handled by other people 
anyway.

Christian



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