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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Text version of the iAudio manualRe: Text version of the iAudio manual
From: will <lomaswilliam_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:25:13 +0100 hi what formats will work with rockbox and the Iaudio? this player has a whole bunch of formats that suit me regards, will ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominik Riebeling" <dominik.riebeling_at_gmail.com> To: "Rockbox" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:05 AM Subject: Re: Text version of the iAudio manual > On 7/13/06, Tim Culhane <tim.culhane_at_criticalpath.net> wrote: >> Are there any plans to produce a text version of the iAudio manual? > > There are plans of producing a HTML version of all manuals -- the > manuals are all treated equally as they are generated from the same > LaTeX source. Unfortunately all tools I've tried for that have various > issues, so this needs some more work until it gets out. I even can't > tell you a planned date, it'll be avaliable when the problems are > solved. > >> The current pdf document uses diagrams and graphics to represent the >> various buttons and controls on the player. > > The only "diagram" is the "description" of the buttons at the > beginning of the manual, while all other screenshots are ... > screenshots ;-) So it would only require adding a section that > describes that button mappings in text or alternatively using ASCII > arts somewhere in the appendix (but I have no idea if this would be a > good solution for blind people -- please let me know). I already > thought about that, but as I'm pretty busy ATM I haven't found time to > look into it. Also, as the wiki is currently down I'm unable to add > this to the ManualTodo page. > >> This is not accessible to blind users of the iAudio player. > > The manual writers are aware of that. The same problem exists for all > other players. If you have some spare time and want to help out, feel > free to write a small section and submit it to the tracker > (preferrably as a patch to the LaTeX sources, but just having an > unformatted text as starting point will be helpful too) > > Also, please be aware of the fact that the iaudio isn't a release > target for 3.0 and therefore the iaudio parts of the manual are of > lower priority up to now. > > - Dominik Received on 2006-07-13 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |