-.gnucash files

[David T.]

My own experience with this has been to use Bugzilla to submit editorial suggestions for updating the documentation. The benefit there is that each change can be discussed by interested parties, and corrections tracked. For example, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633586

I did not have trouble with this method.

David




________________________________
 From: Cristian Marchi <cri79 at libero.it>
To: David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> 
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: -.gnucash files
 

Il 17/09/2012 18:40, David Carlson ha scritto:
> On 9/17/2012 8:25 AM, AlainCageda wrote:
>> Derek
>>
>> There was a lot of confusion in my mind between main files and autobackups. It's a lot clearer now. Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Alain
>>
>>
>>
> I believe that Alain is probably one of several thousand new users that
> have been caught in this trap caused by the way backups are managed in
> GnuCash.  I believe that it is about time that someone updates the
> documentation in a very concise description, possibly based on the wiki
> entry
http://code.gnucash.org/docs/guide/basics-backup1.html

What this section of the GnuCash guide is missing in order to understand 
how GnuCash manage backups?

>
>
> At one point I volunteered to help with improving the manuals but I was put off by the complexity (to a non-program developer) of the editing process and lack of assistance from those who might have been able to help me.
>
> If there were a clear path for language majors to make an impact without learning how to use programs more complicated than Word or Open Office, I might try again.
>
> David C
>
Just write the text you want to add in the body of the email (simpler 
than Word or OpenOffice!) and send it to the GnuCash devel list): I will 
be more than happy to add it to GnuCash documentation!

If you want to go deeper on the editing of documentation first read the 
wiki [1] and ask specific question if something is unclear.

Regards
Cristian

[1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions
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