[kupu-dev] Add charmap to kupu

[Guido Wesdorp]

Jordi Martinez wrote:
> Thanks for the help but to solve my problem first I need to translate 
> your words to something understandable to a newbie
> I don't want to seem ungrateful I only want to help kupu developers to 
> improve the support and step-by-step helps more than 3 documents with a 
> lot of words and deep discussion of concepts (like kupu documentation)
>
> If we think in child to write the help we write better documentation. A 
> newbie is like a child and if you use steps (ol or ul), graphics, etc 
> then the newbie could do the job. Deep discussions are useful when you 
> are experienced and want to make things better
>
>   
I understand that fully, but unfortunately writing such documentation 
takes _huge_ amounts of time, and I barely have time to work on Kupu 
itself (and I guess that's the same with the other developers). It's a 
common scenario in open-source: stuff gets developed/written when it's 
needed, by the people who need it... Of course, that does mean that it 
would be _highly_ appreciated by others like you if you'd take the step 
of trying to bring it to a good end, documenting each step in the way, 
yourself... Of course you can ask if you get stuck, I'd be happy to help 
you out answering (shorter ;) questions here.

If your understanding of the techniques used in Kupu is very limited, 
however, I can imagine you don't want to go through all the trouble... 
There's a lot of things involved here. I guess this is a general problem 
with programming: complex systems are hard to understand and develop 
for. Having said that, I do think Kupu can be improved here and there, 
hopefully we can think of easier ways to extend it and such at some point.

Sorry for not being able to help you out all the way, I hope you do 
understand my situation though...

Cheers,

Guido