Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "k5kip_1999" <k5kip_1999@...> wrote:
> After reading more and more of it, I really like your manual.
> However, I do think that more images in the document would be great.
> If you send me the manual file, I will start add some images where
> appropriate.
> I don't want to cut and paste from the pdf or try to rewrite the text
> you have already written.
> So... send me the source of the pdf, I usually render my pdfs with
> open office.  I don't know what you wrote the bcman manual in.
> Send it and I will get to work. Or even use it as a basis for a
> getting started manual.
> I already captured some images of bcman to use.  Just have not gotten
> around to writing text...
> So send me the source of the manual only.

> yesterday after much trial and error I figure out how to make an
> indexed (bookmarked and hotlinked with table of contents) pdf file using
> Open Office 2.4!
>
> Also, I was thinking this morning, that maybe a screen movie would be
> better for the getting started.  I will experiment and get back to you.
> Then I could post it on youtube, along with the bcr2000 + Live demo
> movie I already did.

First of all: thank you for your enthousiasm, Kip! I never dreamed BC 
Manager could become a movie star!

I've given this whole matter some further thought: I do appreciate
your point that the terseness and lack of graphics in the "official"
manual may cause problems for starting users. However, as I have
explained previously, for practical reasons I don't want the
"official" manual to increase in size because of added graphics, at
least not at this point in time. Secondly, since I'm continually
updating the manual, it would be very confusing to users if a kind of
"extended" version of the "official" manual started floating around on
the various websites. Moreover, we would get in an almighty editorial
tangle; and frankly, speaking for myself, I simply don't have the time
or energy for that right now. I'm having a hard enough time keeping
the manual up-to-date with all the latest program changes right now.
But if you (or anyone else) want to write a Getting Started manual/ 
screen movie, you have my blessing, and I might even give feedback etc.

Best wishes,
Mark.