[OLPC library] documentation nearly ready

[Walter Bender]

I think I caught all the instances of the connected icons and the
old-style Journal icons in the Sugar manual.

-walter

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all -
> Thought I'd send an update on the documentation for XO and Sugar. I really
> appreciate the work of people coming in with edits and content clarity
> checks. Nice work, all.
>
> If you've seen me in there doing edits but don't see any text changes, it's
> because I'm working on HTML code that'll look nice both online and in the
> pretty PDF version. For some reason (not entirely sure why), using <ul> with
> <li> followed by <br /> with <img src> tags caused multiple numbers in front
> of every <br / > tag in the PDF output. So a four-list item list with four
> graphics was numbered quite oddly! I think the solution is to use <dl> lists
> any time that you need images in a numbered list, and you have to manually
> insert the numbers for the list items. See the Give me the Internet Please
> chapter if you want an example of the <dl> coding.
>
> I have one known graphic change in the UI that I need a screenshot for -
> it's the "halo" surrounding the access point that's connected. The graphics
> where this is apparent are in this chapter:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/XO/GiveMeTheInternet - there are two
> instances.
> I'm updating to candidate-767 and I'll try to get graphics in but someone
> else could certainly beat me to it I'm sure. :) If you know of other UI
> updates that may have occured in the last 5 weeks, please check the manuals
> to see if a new graphic needs inserted.
>
> I'd also like some review and procedure checking on the chapter about
> updating your Sugar version to the latest - especially keeping in mind the
> people from the first G1G1 release who want to update to 8.2 (because it's
> awesome!). A specific walkthrough of the scenario of going from 656 to 8.2
> as a new H2 in this chapter would be ideal (keeping the
> kids/parents/teachers audience in mind). I'll draft that section after I get
> done with graphics updates, so again, feel free to beat me to it.
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/Updating
>
> For the upcoming G1G1 release we'll be offering a remixed manual on Amazon
> that contains chapters from the XO and Sugar books - very similar to what's
> included in the Help Activity. Any edits we make this week will be in that
> remixed manual.
>
> Thanks, all for your work. Any questions, feel free to ask.
>
> Anne
>
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Walter Bender
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