Bowerbird@... wrote:

> ian said:
> >   I am not sure that it's good for users to alter docs.
>
> oh please.
>
> hello.  hello!  is this thing on!
>
> i don't know what the help is like in fb3,

It's better than it was in FB2. Maybe you should find out

>
> but didn't any of you ever use the help in fb2?

>

I am a dinosaur I always used the printed manuals.

>
>
> didn't any of you ever use its ability to edit?

I wrote notes in the manuals

> man, if you didn't, you've missed out on a valuable tool.

Occasionally I use the old manuals. The notes I made are still there.

>
> i edited very little of the help text, but
> every edit was _well_ worth its weight...
>
> >   If you write in the margin of a book,
> >   it is clear that the annotation was not part of the original.
>
> ok, so if you're writing the freakin' program,
> you can write the tool so it works that way.

Why ? Why write another help system when there good ones available ?
Why dilute Staz's resources making them responsible for maintaining some
bespoke system?

>
>
> i mean, jeez, one of the main reason i write programs is
> so i can have a program that works the way i want it to.
>
> some of you seem content to work with tools you can't modify,
> evidently, i guess, because you like to complain about how badly
> they work, or something, can someone please enlighten me here?

evidently - where evidently - I want Staz and Andy to work on FB3 not on
writing another non-standard help system that they will have to support.
realistic choices are Mac Help or PDF

>
> sorry if this post sounds harsh...              :+)

No harsher than your usual posts - I guess we have to make allowances  ?

>
> but, my lord, it's frustrating to have to
> teach a man that he knows how to fish...

I caught a fish once. It involved getting freezing cold and seasick.
I go to the supermarket now.

Regards

Ian