[Xprint] user-level documentation

Jan Willem Stumpel jstumpel at planet.nl
Mon Sep 26 22:21:58 EDT 2005


Is there any user-level (not developer-level) documentation for
xprint? I do not think so. Otherwise poster John Francis Lee would
not have had so many problems (unanswered on this list, for many 
months) printing Thai. People on the list could at least have 
said: RTFM! But there is no FM.

I think the user manual should be written before any coding is 
done. Many authorities in software engineering think so also:

http://rdenney.bizland.com/FYI/Requirements%20Mgmt/User%20Manual%20as%20SRS.htm

It is late in the day, but maybe user-level docs can still be 
produced for xprint. I am very willing to lend a hand. Problem is, 
I am just a user, and I simply do not understand all this ddx and 
ppd stuff.

For xprint to be accepted by ordinary users (and even by Linux 
distributors) good documentation is absolutely needed. This should 
be the first priority above anything else. I said so before on 
this list.

Regards, Jan
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T9



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