[FM Discuss] State of the english Flossmanuals

[helen varley jamieson]

i work on the UpStage manual, for which we have (occasionally) had
contributions from users of the platform who are not at all technical.
it has been really helpful to be able to involve these people in the
manual-writing process. in fact the previous FM interface was almost too
difficult for people to use. keeping it simple for users of software to
be able to contribute is really important, since users will write quite
different instructions to those who wrote the software.

h : )

On 17/06/15 9:51 28PM, Mick FM wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17/06/15 19:57, Marvin Scholz wrote:
>>
>>> I personally don't think it's good for FM as really we want to lower
>>> barriers to writing docs, so having to use git, or mark up doesn't
>>> really fit the bill.
>>
>> Hey, well to be honest I think the opposite is the case. Most people
>> writing technical
>> documentation would prefer a markup language like Markdown instead of
>> a WYSIWG editor.
> 
> I hear what you are saying there, and I wouldn't dispute it, but let me
> clarify a bit, I meant that the goal is to make it as easy as possible
> for *anyone* to write docs without any other technical knowledge.
> 
>> A lot of sites do a "best of both worlds" solution by having an editor
>> that has buttons for
>> most common formatting and inserts the correct Markdown. 
> 
> Sure, that would be ideal, definitely.
> And even more ideal if technically able writers could write via markdown
> and git and others who were less technical could write via a web interface.
> 
> I think this has already been mentioned on this list but for Booktype
> 2.0 the Aloha editor is used.
> http://www.alohaeditor.org/
> This looks to be a huge improvement!
> 
> nice one
> Mick
> 
> 
> 

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