FlightGear Newsletter September 2012: Difference between revisions

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 Aircraft typically have a large number of checklists, covering almost every phase of flight.  Previously, aircraft authors have added checklists to the help text for the aircraft.  This is a bit unwieldy.  To improve matters, there is now an Aircraft Checklists dialog under the Help menu specifically designed to organize and display checklists.  Aircraft authors can create new checklists easily without having to worry about how they will be displayed.  See [[Aircraft Checklists]] for details.
+==== Integrated Documentation Browser ====
+[[File:Fg-30-doc-browser.png|thumb|Add caption here]]
+Often, especially new FlightGear users are not aware of all the documentation that comes with FlightGear. While the manual is fairly easy to find and pretty accessible (being a PDF file), most of the other documentation in $FG_ROOT/Docs is hardly easy to find and often pretty inaccessible to new users, even though these files are standard text files, because of the non-standard file extensions used by most README* files there.
+That's why we have now added a new built-in dialog to FlightGear which shows most plain text files in $FG_ROOT/Docs directly inside FlightGear, without having to start any other applications.
 === Forum digest ===