tutorial: [was: Re: Org-mode and taskpaper]

[Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it>]

--- Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org> ha scritto:
> 
> what would be
> Emacs without its tutorial?  A closed door.
> 
> So I believe this would be a *huge* benefit for Org
> to have its own tutorial.  

Is it an april fool?  <[°]=,=< 
Let's assume it isn't.

I disagree since I belive the manual is already 
written as a tutorial. Let's surf the TOC (Table of 
Content):

+ It begins with the introduction, the basic .emacs   
  lines to use Org-Mode
+ then it describes the use of Org-Mode as outline
+ then tables 
+ then hyperlinks
+ TODO
+ tags
....

I think that a newbie is guided from the easy use to 
exploitation of the more advanced features of
Org-Mode:
properties, finer agenda views etc...

Moreover "The OrgMode tutorial by David O'Toole"
on the  worg site is not enough? 

> Because yes, beginners might be frightened 
> by the size of 
> the manual, 
 
 (-:   Newbies may only be   /lazy/ and do not   :-)
 (-:   want to spend time in reading the manual   :-)

> by the simple act of asking something on
> this list, 
 
    (-:   So what? Let them grew up,       :-)
     :-)  become brave and ask questions!  :-)

I mean, I personally asked some _really_ silly 
questions here: e.g. I sought for help regarding a
bug,
 but the problem was that *I* wrote badly  the 
"#+LINK: " line and  Carsten replied very promptly 
and extremly kindly.

I think that everybody in this list is really gentle,
helpful,  constructive, handy, supportive.
 
> or by
> spending time looking for the right information on
> Org websites.

Perhaps we (not so newbie users) shall 
+ try to organise the various sorces of documentation
  EmacsWiki, orgmode.org, worg ...
  in a more clear way 
+ fill the page of the tutorials at the worg site

On the other hand if somebzg ;) will write a tutorial
as clear, readable and enlightning, like you did with 
column views [terrific!], I will suggest every 
newbie to read it.

Cheers,
Giovanni



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