[Elecraft] Manuals

[Jim Miller]

Seems this updating process could just as easily be taken care of by
"marking" the original page/paragraph that has been modified (just an "X" or
an Errata page number (ID the errata pages somehow) written on the original
document where the change has been made.  Then you know there has been an
update and where to find it.

Other options would appear to be at least as or more cumbersome than a
procedure similar to this and YOU CAN do it this way NOW without any changes
to the "system".

JMHO,
73, de Jim KG0KP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Yarnes" <w7aqk at cox.net>
To: "David Pratt" <david at g4dmp.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: "G4ILO" <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com>; <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Manuals


> David and All,
>
> Wordperfect suits me!  As does Works, Office One, whatever.  All of them
> would be translatable into each other.  This would not be a complex file
> format, so just about every word processing program could handle it.  But
I
> think you are letting your bias against Microsoft (which I certainly can
> understand) distract you from the main purpose of my post.
>
> You can actually accomplish much the same thing using PDF files.  The
> problem with most PDF stuff is whether or not you can actually modify the
> document itself.  Using one of the word processing programs, you could
> actually modify the original document by simply inserting the corrections
> rather than just adding revision pages.  That could keep your manual much
> more concise, assuming you wanted to go to the trouble to do it--which
> wouldn't be much.  By the way, any word processing document can easily be
> provided in PDF format as well.  So if PDF is your thing, there's no good
> reason why you couldn't continue to have it that way.  In fact, I bet all
> these Elecraft manuals, and their revisions, etc., are first done on a
word
> processing program, and then converted to PDF.   I'm really just asking
them
> to make the documents available in their original form.  I'm also
suggesting
> a somewhat more organized method for updating, but that isn't as critical
as
> having the documents in a word processing format.
>
> I'm just not much in favor of "Errata" sheets.  You can get a whole bunch
of
> errata sheets just to correct minor errors.  I'd rather correct the
original
> document itself, especially for minor items like that.  Procedural changes
> can be made by "cut and paste".  Or, you can just do as I initially
> suggested and have revision pages.  At least those would be more
> appropriately located in your manual rather than having to keep checking
the
> long list of errata sheets for any possible correction.
>
> Unless you are familiar with this process, which as I indicated is widely
> used, you probably can't appreciate it's benefits fully.  If you have ever
> dealt with frequently updated technical reference material, you probably
> know how the process I'm suggesting works.
>
> Dave W7AQK
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Pratt" <david at g4dmp.fsnet.co.uk>
> To: "David Yarnes" <w7aqk at cox.net>
> Cc: "G4ILO" <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com>; <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:48 PM
> Subject: [Elecraft] Manuals
>
>
> > In a recent message, David Yarnes <w7aqk at cox.net> writes
> >>I think the manual should be downloadable in Word,
> >
> > Gosh, I sincerely hope not, David;  I for one do not wish to have to
start
> > installing another Microsoft product.  How about Corel WordPerfect?
> >
> > No!  Let's stick with Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Files. Most people
> > have Acrobat on their PC and can print out in whatever size of paper
they
> > choose.
> >>
> >>Just my humble opinion!
> >
> > Mine too.
> >
> > 73
> > -- 
> > David G4DMP
> > Leeds, England, UK
> >
> >
> >
>
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