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cantcode

Re: LibreCAD User Manual New Content 2/14/13

@R. van Twisk
"... there aren't any good systems to generate a HTML/PDF from the wiki..."

have you seen this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection ?
looks like one can have pdf and odt export

btw. recently I read that git can diff odt files

R. van Twisk

Re: LibreCAD User Manual New Content 2/14/13

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On Jul 19, 2013, at 7:44 AM, cantcode [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

@R. van Twisk
"... there aren't any good systems to generate a HTML/PDF from the wiki..."

have you seen this: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection ?
looks like one can have pdf and odt export

Yes,

mediawiki was actually the reason because you could create nice documentations from it, I forgot the name but RH is using that.

Without ranting how much I hate media wiki, it's hard to configure in such a way to make good looking

documentation. And you need people that are willing to invest considerable amouth of time

to add documentation that will really look good. I have never done that myself and at the moment no interest

to make that work.

However, if there is a person with mediawiki experience that has this knowledge, I am more then willing to give

him access to our server and let him/her configure this.

btw. recently I read that git can diff odt files

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IAn Bell

Re: LibreCAD User Manual New Content 2/14/13

A simple request from a complete beginner - can you include an explanation of what the 'draft' icon does - and 'it switches to and from daft mode' is not what I mean because I don't understand what draft mode means.

Cheers

Ian

Plane_Dealer

Re: LibreCAD User Manual New Content 2/14/13

I have the same question. Did you ever get an answer to this? Thanks

flywire

Re: LibreCAD User Manual New Content 2/14/13

Draft mode displays the drawing more quickly by leaving detail out of the display, particularly useful on slow computers. The function is not explained in the User Manual or wiki but there are references in the wiki faq that if things aren't visible then check that draft mode is not on.

https://www.heikell.fi/downloads/LibCAD_220rc1.pdf

p21 wrote

The Draft button can cause confusion: If something suddenly disappears from view, check that Draft is not activated – if it is, it most likely has caused the disappearance

p55 wrote

The Draft Mode button causes items to “disappear” when pressed

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