[Freeciv-Dev] Another Freeciv Manual Draft

[David King <crkinger@xxxxxxx>]

Another draft of a Freeciv User's Manual has been uploaded to
ftp.freeciv.org /pub/freeciv/incoming, a tarball named
manual-Feb-28.tar.bz2; it should make its way to
/pub/freeciv/contrib/manual.  It incorporates all comments received
from various kind reviewers, and also all changes made to the code up
through the CVS drop of February 28.  Please take another look at it.
I hope to have it acceptable enough to be part of the website when
1.8.0 is released (if whoever sets that up can take care of this).

It includes both Xaw and GTK+ client documentation and window
screenshots, and is mostly suitable for 1.8.0 users (but users of
older versions will find much useful).

I intend to watch progress in CVS this week and will make sure to
upload an updated manual near week-end if anything needs to be
adjusted.

Once this is done, I plan to keep maintaining the document to be ready
for 1.8.1, and also to begin on a third major section, describing the
game concepts and elements; this latter will be largely stolen from
the online documentation, repackaged into HTML, and augmented with
screenshots.  This would help those who don't have prior experience
with Civ/CivII and don't really know the rules.

David King