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The Cytoscape user manual exists as a Microsoft Word file in: The Cytoscape user manual exists as a wiki page: ["Cytoscape 2.3 User Manual"]
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When editing the manual, please use GIF or PNG files for all screenshots. Do not use JPG, as this is a lossy file format.
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To modify the manual, edit the document in Microsoft Word and check it back in to CVS. Someone (maybe it will be you!) will create a PDF from this Word document near release time for distribution. When creating a manual for a new version, the manual from the pervious version should be copied to a new page. This is so we can keep old versions of the manual for those using older versions of Cytoscape.
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It would be nice to have a more cross-platform and manageable solution to user documentation. Mike Smoot suggested DocBook, though as of late 2005, it appears not to have a GUI editor, which is definitely a requirement for us. If you are aware of other options, let us know.

Two options for DocBook editing with GUI editor:

 * XMLEditor is specific for XML:
  * http://www.happy-monkey.net/docbook/gui-editor.html
  * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/
 * [http://openoffice.org/ OpenOffice] can work with DocBook:
  * http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/OpenOffice
  * http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/UserGuide.html
  * OpenOffice 2.0 (still beta) has support for saving in docbook format directly:

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I haven't tested OpenOffice with DocBook (because I never worked with DocBook :-) ) and just found XMLEditor using Google, so I haven't tested it either.
During the release process, the page will be automatically converted to DocBook format and then to various other formats, like PDF and Java Help

The Cytoscape user manual exists as a wiki page: ["Cytoscape 2.3 User Manual"]

When editing the manual, please use GIF or PNG files for all screenshots. Do not use JPG, as this is a lossy file format.

When creating a manual for a new version, the manual from the pervious version should be copied to a new page. This is so we can keep old versions of the manual for those using older versions of Cytoscape.

During the release process, the page will be automatically converted to DocBook format and then to various other formats, like PDF and Java Help

How_to_update_the_Cytoscape_manual (last edited 2009-02-12 01:03:38 by localhost)

Funding for Cytoscape is provided by a federal grant from the U.S. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the Na tional Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number GM070743-01. Corporate funding is provided through a contract from Unilever PLC.

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