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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: kchart documentation comments
From:       Jonathan <j.e.drews () worldnet ! att ! net>
Date:       2003-06-11 23:42:27
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Hello Pedro:

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 04:47 PM, Pedro Morais wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm starting to translate the HEAD koffice documentation; even thought I'm
> sure it will change, it's better to start early.
>
> Now, for some kchart issues I've found:
>
> various statements like "don't use this" "it doesn't work" "beta software",
> that I guess will be corrected on a documentation update

 Well let's hope.  When I initially did the docs, Kchart was pretty buggy. 
Truth be told it can only work inside Kspread. It has no capability to accept 
ASCII files of numbers.

> "This item will now have a blue background" -
> (isn't that color scheme dependent)

 I will try and answer some of these questions. I do not have Koffice 
installed here. I used it a while back but it mangled every document I made 
in it.



>
> "... The <menuchoice> <guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
> Toolbars...</guimenuitem></menuchoice> Is..."
> ('Is' should be 'is')

 Can't remember. I tried to duplicate exactly what was displayed in the menu. 
If the menu showed "Is..."  then I used that.

>
> "... and then click on <userinput><guilabel>OK</guilabel></userinput>"
> (missing . in the end of the sentence)
>
> "The new Item..."
> (should item be capitalized?)

 Whatever the menu displayed I used; I used the exact same capitalization.  
The menu items may have changed from a year ago.


>
> "... Each graphed set of data is a series"
> (missing . in the end of the sentence)

 Ok add it in. Fine with me.

>
> "... allows you to specify key bindings"
> (missing . in the end of the sentence)

 Right missing period again.

Pedro and others:

 I really don't have high expectations that Kchart is going to be usable any 
time soon. I hate to say that but it has been in a semi-finished state for so 
long. Before you actually began doing all this work, I suggest that you try 
to draw some graphs to see what shape it is in. If features are not working 
it would be a good idea to just say so. At the time I wrote the 
documentation, The Configure Tabs section was really buggy. I would click on 
buttons and nothing would work. I did my tests on the HEAD version of 
Koffice, which I cvsuped every 96 hours. I am going to wait until late July 
to revise the docs. Hopefully by then Kchart will have been worked on. 



						Kind regards,
						Jonathan


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