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simon at koala

Nov 6, 2009, 8:24 AM

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every now and again i think that i should write a book on myth. after
all, i spend some much time faffing about with it. another motivation is
that my better half gets terribly fed up as she doesn't understand how
to use the software.

so with that said, i was thinking about aggregating the words in the
documentation, stuff from the wiki, and anything else i can lay my hands
on. i have the various mailing lists archived back into the mists of
time. but certainly there is useful stuff in -dev going over the last 12
months.

my proposal would be to take all this and produce a "book" for want of a
better term. it would be released under a compatible licence (not
investigated what would be best - for some value of best).

i really, really, really do not like Microsoft. with a passion, you
might say. having said that, i use ms word for about 4-5 hours a day for
my job of work. for this reason, the current tool that i'm using to work
on the text is word. it can be converted to whatever format is deemed
acceptable at some point in the future.

i was wondering if anyone else was planning to so some work in this area?

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david.schmidt.in.dallas at gmail

Nov 6, 2009, 9:15 AM

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Re: documentation [In reply to]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Simon Kenyon <simon [at] koala> wrote:
> every now and again i think that i should write a book on myth. after
> all, i spend some much time faffing about with it. another motivation is
> that my better half gets terribly fed up as she doesn't understand how
> to use the software.
>
> so with that said, i was thinking about aggregating the words in the
> documentation, stuff from the wiki, and anything else i can lay my hands
> on. i have the various mailing lists archived back into the mists of
> time. but certainly there is useful stuff in -dev going over the last 12
> months.
>
> my proposal would be to take all this and produce a "book" for want of a
> better term. it would be released under a compatible licence (not
> investigated what would be best - for some value of best).
>
> i really, really, really do not like Microsoft. with a passion, you
> might say. having said that, i use ms word for about 4-5 hours a day for
> my job of work. for this reason, the current tool that i'm using to work
> on the text is word. it can be converted to whatever format is deemed
> acceptable at some point in the future.
>
> i was wondering if anyone else was planning to so some work in this area?
>

Jarod Wilson has done:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hacking-MythTV-ExtremeTech-Jarod-Wilson/dp/0470037873

though I'm sure it's a bit dated by now....
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rkulagow at gmail

Nov 6, 2009, 9:20 AM

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Re: documentation [In reply to]

Simon Kenyon wrote:
> every now and again i think that i should write a book on myth. after
> all, i spend some much time faffing about with it. another motivation is
> that my better half gets terribly fed up as she doesn't understand how
> to use the software.

It would be nice to include information somewhere that has more than a
"North American" slant on things.
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simon at koala

Nov 6, 2009, 9:52 AM

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Re: documentation [In reply to]

Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> Simon Kenyon wrote:
>> every now and again i think that i should write a book on myth. after
>> all, i spend some much time faffing about with it. another motivation is
>> that my better half gets terribly fed up as she doesn't understand how
>> to use the software.
>
> It would be nice to include information somewhere that has more than a
> "North American" slant on things.
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>
i noticed your disclaimer at the beginning
and seeing as how i live in yuurp that would be possible

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Nov 6, 2009, 3:36 PM

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Re: documentation [In reply to]

2009/11/6 Simon Kenyon <simon [at] koala>:

> i was wondering if anyone else was planning to so some work in this area?

Writing man pages for the suite of MythTV apps is on my todo list, and
I want to get this done before 0.23 comes out. I also talked to Linux
Magazine at LRL'09 about an article for 0.22, and they didn't rule it
out. Their previous article was not the best, and with many
improvements here or around the corner, I thought it might be
worthwhile to have updated coverage.

I've wondered about writing at length a user guide to configuring
MythTV, but with the imminent release of 0.22 (and 0.23 hopefully
appearing by end Q2-10) and a plethora of likely options changes and
consolidation, I''ve not actioned this. A lot of UK setup issues stem
from getting DVB-T/DVB-S working with the channel scanner - so I'll be
keeping a close eye on how the improved scanner in 0.22 works for
regular users, so this maybe worth a short article on the wiki.

I'm in the minority camp of thinking that having the option of a
wizard drive mythtv-setup is a good idea, so I might spend more time
in the nearer term looking into ways of at least simplifying getting
"the bloody thing working" (to paraphrase from LUG meetings!).

Cheers,
Nick

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