[Sc-devel] Main Help File Redux

[Scott Wilson]

On 1 Nov 2007, at 18:16, Ryan Brown wrote:

>> You changed the order of the sections; there is no way I would have
>> had (for instance) links to SC3vsSC2 or third party libraries
>> prioritised at the top of the page. Instead, I would have used the
>> first five Overviews on the right, and then put other 'overviews'
>> into a separate  and longer Further Topics section below left. SC2
>> stuff and third party libraries could go on the bottom of that
>> column. I would prefer this was changed before it propagates too far.
>
> I moved the "Further Topics" section to the top so that the three  
> shortest
> sections would be at the top. It seemed like a reasonable trade off
> because "Extending SC" (which was swapped with "Further Topics" and  
> moved
> to the very bottom) is one of the lowest priority items for new users.
>
> I agree though, I could have moved the links in each section  
> around. Could
> you send a list of what you think should go in each section?  
> Modifying the
> main help file itself may be difficult (I ended up working on the html
> directly)...so plain text would be fine.

Hey Ryan,

Was the custom stuff the tables, or just the visible text for the  
links? (I notice these have been rationalised.) For the latter you  
could just rename the files.

S.