Hi List, Hi Roman, > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- > Von: Roman Joost <romanofski@xxxxxxxx> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:57:00PM +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote: > > I just found out, that the whole preface section of the manual is > missing in the PDF version. > > Does anybody have an idea what's going on here? > I'm not sure... maybe a missing language attribute? Actually, if I look > at the german an english PDF, I see a Preface ... (page 27. in en.pdf). > > > Why did we introduce the preface anyway? It seems to be created pretty > recently - may be in > > conjunction with the splitting into the base, wizard, reference > chapters? I personally would > > prefer to move the content of the preface ( GIMP introduction and GIMP > history) to the > > Introduction section. > I added the preface, because I thought, that we would add more content > which is not relevant to learn GIMP. The authors of the book, the > authors of GIMP or the history of GIMP is in my opinion nice to know. > But it is nothing you want to read in the introduction ... Though, the > preface has an introductionary background. I had a minute ago a look into http://docs.gimp.org/en.pdf and couldn't find the GIMP history section neither the preface at all ... ... I agree with you, to separate the GIMP history from the introduction might be a good thing to do, but if we put them on the first pages of the manual makes it very visible ... ... how about putting the history - which might grow in time - in the appendix section? The authors on the other hand might be well placed at te very beginning of the book :) Greetings, lexa > > Greetings, > -- > Roman Joost > www: http://www.romanofski.de > email: romanofski@xxxxxxxx > -- Lust, ein paar Euro nebenbei zu verdienen? Ohne Kosten, ohne Risiko! Satte Provisionen für GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs
