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* A shorter manual
@ 2010-04-28 15:46 Carsten Dominik
  2010-04-28 15:57 ` Erik Iverson
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From: Carsten Dominik @ 2010-04-28 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear all,

with the Org-mode manual moving toward 200 pages,  I am
starting to worry that people with stop in their tracks
when considering Org-mode, just because of the sheer size
of the manual.

So I did a little experiment.  I took the manual and stripped
everything which could be considered advanced material, but
keeping all features and all basic commands and customizations.

What remains are about 50 pages.  A document with the same
structure (even the same chapter numbers) as the manual.
I am wondering if it would be useful to have this as a beginners
document - or if the existence of this document would lead
to more confusion than relief.

     http://orgmode.org/orgguide.pdf

I don't see this a an alternative for the manual - just
as an additional, rather static document, with little need for
updates.  The manual would continue to be the comprehensive
and constantly updated document.

Comments are welcome.

- Carsten

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2010-04-28 15:46 A shorter manual Carsten Dominik
2010-04-28 15:57 ` Erik Iverson
2010-04-28 17:05   ` Dan Davison
2010-04-28 18:43     ` Matti De Craene
2010-04-28 21:52       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-29 17:23         ` Dan Davison
2010-04-29 21:27           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-29 22:14             ` Dan Davison
2010-04-29 22:36               ` Samuel Wales
2010-04-30  6:47                 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-01  6:41                 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-30 14:12       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-02 10:13         ` Matti De Craene
2010-04-28 17:06   ` Dan Davison
2010-04-28 16:00 ` Marco
2010-04-28 16:45 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-04-28 17:24 ` Samuel Wales
2010-04-28 17:27   ` Samuel Wales
2010-04-28 18:59     ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-04-28 21:34     ` Sebastian Rose
2010-04-29 22:37       ` Samuel Wales

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