Bjoern wrote:stuart wrote:7)"offer wiki-based tutorials," We have a series of tutorials in the FG Manual on flying aircraft. Or are you thinking about how to use particular features?
Move the tutorials from the .pdf to the wiki.
This would enable quick adaption to possible new features by the community and it would get rid of having a PDF reader open for reading up.
While certainly great for other uses, I find any PDF reader tedious to use for large, text based files. A wiki with its clear division into articles, cross-linking and a usable "search" function is much more usable.
I really have to agree with this. This is even though I'm familiar with LaTex, git and gitorious: I find it MUCH more *direct* to simply use the wiki to contribute a fix/change/improvement than going through the hassle of getting my changes committed to the manual via the LaTex route. I know all the pro & contra arguments here, given that this has been discussed on the wiki already (and rejected). However, let's keep in mind that the wiki our main source for new documentation, which is because it's so simple to contribute to it.
And there are solutions to import LaTex into docbook and use a wiki-based editing environment, that would allow all contributors to suggest changes.
Just by taking a look at the wiki, you'll see that we've had a number of users (wiki contributors) who requested such a change.
For reference, see:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?ti ... i_software
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?ti ... PDF_Export