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From: Matti De Craene <mattidecraene@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>,
	emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A shorter manual
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 12:13:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v2xe4f0b2511005020313j9928df40na5978e309d114e5b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1EAE89D-7471-4FB6-984D-D12AAFFAFA37@gmail.com>

> Would you like to write that introduction?

Sure, I'll put something together, either for the compact manual or for worg.

Will not be for this week though.

Kregs,

Matti


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Matti De Craene wrote:
>
>>> - 2.8 Drawers
>>> - 3.2 Column width and alignment
>>> - 3.3 The Spreadsheet (4 rather technical pages)
>>> - 7.4 Property Inheritance and 7.5 Column View
>>> (do beginners really need properties at all ??)
>>
>>
>> I would agree on this list (except maybe drawers).
>>
>> If there is room for additional sections maybe:
>> - include the org ref card as an appendix (which in itself offers a
>> very good overview of org)
>> - include some pointers into getting emacs for different OSes and
>> getting started with emacs. If there would be an O´Reilly book on
>> Org-mode this would be in the first chapter or so. For people who
>> started using emacs because of org (like me) the current Introduction
>> might still be too cryptic (?)
>
> Would you like to write that introduction?
>
> - Carsten
>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-02 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
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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