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for Rockbox is
#rockbox
on
irc://irc.freenode.net
. A bunch of helpful developers and
users are usually around. Just join and ask – if someone knows the answer you’ll usu-
ally get an answer pretty quickly. More information including IRC logs can be found
at
http://www.rockbox.org/irc/
. We also have a web client for joining the rockbox IRC
channel so there is no need for you to install additional software to your computer.
If you think you have found a bug please make sure it actually is a bug and is still
present in the most recent version of rockbox. You should try to confirm that by using
the above mentioned support channels first. After that you can submit that issue to our
tracker. Refer to section
D
(page
152
) for details on how to use the tracker.
1.3 Naming conventions and marks
We have some conventions especially on naming that are intended to be consistent
throughout this manual.
Manufacturer and product names are formatted in accordance with the standard
rules of English grammar, e.g. “Iriver playback is currently unsupported”. Manufac-
turer and model names are proper nouns, and thus are written beginning with a capital
letter.
This manual has some parts that are marked with icons on the margin to help you
finding important parts or parts you could skip. The following icons are used:
Note:
This indicates a note. A note starts always with the text “Note”. For easier finding
b
of notes we have put this an icon in the margin like here. Notes are used to mark infor-
mation that could help you or indicate a possible “weirdness” in rockbox that would
be explained.
Warning:
This is a warning. In contrast to notes mentioned above, a warning should be
!
taken more seriously. While ignoring notes will not cause any serious damage ignoring
warnings
could
cause serious damage. If you are new to rockbox you should really read
the warnings before doing anything that is warned about.
This icon marks a section that is intended especially for the blind and visually im-
¸
paired. As they cannot read the manual in the same way sighted people do we have
added some additional descriptions. If you are not blind or visually impaired you most
likely can completely skip these blocks. To make this easier, there is an icon shown in
the margin on the right.
Links to the wiki are abbreviated by the name of the wiki page. Those names are still
linked so you can simply follow them like any other link in this manual. If you want
to access a wiki page manually go to
Z
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/
and type the
page name in the “Go” box at the top of the page. Links to wiki pages are also indicated
by the symbol
Z
in front of the page name.
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