# HG changeset patch
# User Matti Hamalainen <ccr@tnsp.org>
# Date 1190595020 0
# Node ID dda12c2548c841c5df88af2986b2c29a1a9ed201
# Parent  760b4c9902214aaae6a4b09c1a045ce249de149d
Updated history and some other small things.

diff -r 760b4c990221 -r dda12c2548c8 docs/manual.sgml
--- a/docs/manual.sgml	Sat Sep 22 02:01:16 2007 +0000
+++ b/docs/manual.sgml	Mon Sep 24 00:50:20 2007 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "/usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd/4.3/docbookx.dtd">
 <!-- Define some entities
-<!ENTITY ggrtfver "v0.6.0">
+<!ENTITY ggrtfver "0.6.2">
 <!ENTITY jeskko "<ulink url='http://jeskko.pupunen.net/'>Jarkko Vääräniemi</ulink> (<ulink url='http://www.bat.org/help/finger.php?str=jeskko'>Jeskko</ulink>)">
 <!ENTITY ggr "<ulink url='http://ccr.tnsp.org/'>Matti Hämäläinen</ulink> (<ulink url='http://www.bat.org/help/finger.php?str=ggr'>Ggr</ulink>)">
 <!ENTITY tfurl "<ulink url='http://tf.tcp.com/'>TinyFugue</ulink>">
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
 </para>
 
 <para>
-The current version (as of &ggrtfver; release) has modules
+The current version (as of v&ggrtfver; release) has modules
 for following character classes:
 </para>
 <itemizedlist>
@@ -228,13 +228,14 @@
 <subtitle>As told by Ggr</subtitle>
 
 <para>
-About two years ago, in march of 2004, I made one of the worst
-mistakes in my life - I created a character in &batmudurl;.
+<emphasis>About three years ago, in march of 2004, I made one of the worst
+mistakes in my life - I created a character in &batmudurl;.</emphasis>
+
 I never thought of myself to be much of a gamer, I've always
 been more interested in more technical things, programming
-and a little bit of hardware (not analog, though), so
+and a little bit of digital electronics and hardware, so
 mostly my gaming experience consisted of some c64 games,
-Nethack and some other CRPGs. I guess the RPG statmania
+Nethack and some CRPGs like Fallout. I guess the RPG statmania
 was one reason that got me hooked in the first place, plus
 the multiplayer interaction and social aspects.
 </para>
@@ -246,16 +247,18 @@
 First I didn't use any triggers at all, TF was just there
 to work as better terminal and separating the input from
 output .. and the game was confusing enough to start with,
-triggers would have just complicated things. At least I felt so
-back then.
+triggers would have just complicated things. Or at least
+I felt so back then.
 </para>
 
 <para>
 At some point, however, my playing style advanced and need
 for automating some things became apparent. I googled for
 some available scripts, but most of the available ones
-were either badly designed, full of very apparent mistakes and
-bugs, or not maintained anymore.
+were either badly designed, full of very apparent mistakes
+and bugs, or simply not maintained anymore. Some people
+(highbies mainly) seemed to have some good stuff, but as
+usual, they only shared between small inner circles of their own.
 </para>
 
 <para>
@@ -263,26 +266,36 @@
 developing my own piece of turf, starting out very simple,
 expanding and improving when needed. That continued for about
 a year or a bit over, then the situation got out of hand -
-I started "releasing" GgrTF periodically on my &batmudurl; related
-web-page.
+I started "releasing" GgrTF periodically on my &batmudurl;
+related web-page.
 </para>
 
 <para>
 The first ever released version of GgrTF was v0.3.0, which
-was still pretty simple. It just supported channeller/mage
+was extremely simple and hacky. It supported just channeller/mage
 stuff and had a broken prots management system. The 0.3.x-series
-continued up to 0.3.13 or so, after which some major changes
+continued up to 0.3.13 or so, after which some bigger changes
 were made and 0.4.0 was released.
 </para>
 
 <para>
 At some point of 0.4.x-series development, people started
 noticing GgrTF. I believe some even started using it, or
-at least "stole" parts of it. v0.4.x was somewhat short-lived,
-soon additional major restructuring was made into the prot
-management system and it was time for 0.5.0, which is
-the current tree as of writing, though this manual is
-being written for v0.6.0 release.
+at least took and used parts of it. v0.4.x was somewhat short-lived,
+soon major restructuring was made into the prot
+management system and it was time for 0.5.0. As the development
+progressed, it soon again became apparent that bigger changes
+were needed ... v0.5.5 was the last stable release in that series.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Development of the new features took somewhat longer time
+than originally expected, there were literally dozens of internal
+version landmarks (v0.5.6.x, v0.5.9.x, v0.5.10.x, v0.5.11.x and
+finally even v0.6.0-preX series), which preceeded the final
+v0.6.0-release in beginning of august 2006. This new release
+marked a major improvement in code quality and number of features,
+and also this user's manual was included for the first time.
 </para>
 
 </section>
@@ -378,7 +391,7 @@
 </listitem>
  <listitem><para>Verify the package signature (assuming you have downloaded both the file and signature):</para>
 <screen>
-gpg --verify ggrtf-0.6.0.tar.gz
+gpg --verify ggrtf-&ggrtfver;.tar.gz.asc
 </screen>
 <para>(Obviously you have to substitute the filename with the correct one.)</para></listitem>
 </itemizedlist>