User Manuals

User Manuals

At this point in time, there is no proper documentation for users yet. You might want to have a look at the old Petra 2.2 User Guides.

The plan is to write the documentation here in the wiki, and then to automatically export it into PDF format and into Windows Help format, and possibly other formats as well.

TODO: instructions about how to organise chapters, topics, screenshots etc

UPDATE: have a look at http://en.flossmanuals.net. They use TWiki to create free manuals, and use http://www.xhtml2pdf.com/ to create PDF and HTML books from it. They have ways to translate books as well. The question is whether there is a way to create Windows Help files as well?

UPDATE: see the history of Windows Help files:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_WinHelp (.hlp)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help (.chm)
  • compiles HTML files into a chm file
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Help_2: (.hxs), used with Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005/2008 and Office 2007
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Help_System: (.mshc), used with Visual Studio 2010
  • http://www.helpware.net/mshelp3/intro.htm
  • plain html files, index will be generated by the viewer. TOC and index are defined by using meta tags.
• see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Assistance_Markup_Language

Installation

Please see Installation Manuals.

Finance Module

• HowTo: Initial setup of a ledger

Tutorials

• Basic Tutorial