What's going on?

[Peter Neuhaus]

Hello,

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Horacio MG wrote:

> I've just realized that there's been a split(?) from the mainstream 
> manual development ... or some such.

I'm currently working on the german GNU Privacy Handbook... there are some
changes and some additions to the english edition. Here's a brief account on
what was done (and what's still going on)...


there are (or will be) some new chapters:
	
	- a foreword (like "what's cryptography good for, why GnuPG?")
	- a concise chapter on legal implications (with special focus on
	  germany)
	- a chapter on the GNU Privacy Assistant
	- a glossary of acronyms and technical terms used in the book
	- a bibliography (recommended books)
	- a guide to further resources on the internet
	- an index
	- and hopefully a chapter on Mozilla/Outlook plugins
	- a concise reference derived from the manpage
	- the GPL
	? an appendix on how to install GnuPG on different Platforms ?
	

the following chapters have been dropped:

	- c5 (topics)
	- c6 (command reference)
	- c7 (options reference)
	

the order and (therefore) the naming scheme have been changed:

	NEW				OLD
	
	foreword.sgml
	concepts.sgml	c2.sgml
	intro.sgml		c1.sgml
	keymanag.sgml	c3.sgml
	dailyuse.sgml	c4.sgml
	cryptolaw.sgml
	gloss.sgml
	biblio.sgml


There are plenty of minor changes throughout the remaining text as well...

*** Please be aware that it is still a work in progress; not all
changes and additions have been committed, yet... ***


> I'm afraid I can NOT translate from German, I wish I could, but my 
> German is only good to ask for a glass of red wine (that's "ein glass,
> rottschwein, bitte", richtig? ;) 

"Ein Glass Bier, bitte" sounds better ;-)

> If whatever has been done is going to be, sooner or later, translated
> into English

That's a good idea - as soon as the german version is in (or close to) a
final stade. I'm looking forward to cooperate...

> p.s.  else, I might just try a "wild translation" with the "wortenbuch"
> in hand (risky as seen earlier };)

Don't ;-)

I will post to this list as soon as there is anything important going on in
the german GPH project.

				
				bye,
		
						Peter