GF homepage: Add section for "getting help" (mentioning IRC channel)

and remove "fragments" from Maltese

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 2eb4b60b8..a2e29e702 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ January 2013
 | <A HREF="https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/GF/">GitHub</A>
 | <A HREF="http://www.postcrashgames.com/gf_world/">Interactive Map</A><font size=-1 color=red><i>New!</i></font>
 | <a href="http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/"><img src="src/www/P/gf-cloud.png" alt="GF Cloud Service" title="GF Cloud Service"></a>
-] 
+]
 </div>
 <div class=extralinks>
 <p>
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ January 2013
 <div class=news2>
 
 <table class=news>
-<tr><td>2013-06-24:<td>We are now running the IRC channel <code>#gf</code> on the Freenode network.
+<tr><td>2013-06-24:<td>We are now running the IRC channel <strong><code>#gf</code></strong> on the Freenode network.
 <tr><td>2013-06-19:<td>New resource grammar language: Maltese.
     See <a href="lib/doc/synopsis.html">library synopsis</a>.
 <tr><td>2013-04-25:<td>New resource grammar language: Greek.
@@ -119,11 +119,11 @@ January 2013
 
 <H2>What is GF</H2>
 <P>
-GF, Grammatical Framework, is a programming language for 
+GF, Grammatical Framework, is a programming language for
 <B>multilingual grammar applications</B>. It is
 </P>
 <UL>
-<LI>a <B>special-purpose language for grammars</B>, like YACC, Bison, Happy, BNFC, 
+<LI>a <B>special-purpose language for grammars</B>, like YACC, Bison, Happy, BNFC,
   but not restricted to programming languages
 <LI>a <B>functional language</B>, like Haskell, Lisp, OCaml, Scheme, SML,
   but specialized to grammar writing
@@ -153,9 +153,9 @@ GF can be used for building
 
 <H2>Availability</H2>
 <P>
-GF is <B>open-source</B>, licensed under <A HREF="LICENSE">GPL</A> (the program) and 
+GF is <B>open-source</B>, licensed under <A HREF="LICENSE">GPL</A> (the program) and
 <A HREF="./LICENSE">LGPL</A> and <A HREF="./LICENSE">BSD</A> (the libraries). It
-is available for 
+is available for
 </P>
 <UL>
 <LI>Linux
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ is available for
 
 <H2>Projects</H2>
 <P>
-GF was first created in 1998 at 
-<A HREF="http://www.xrce.xerox.com/">Xerox Research Centre Europe</A>, 
+GF was first created in 1998 at
+<A HREF="http://www.xrce.xerox.com/">Xerox Research Centre Europe</A>,
 Grenoble, in the project
 Multilingual Document Authoring. At Xerox, it was used for prototypes including
 a restaurant phrase book,
@@ -180,17 +180,17 @@ an authoring system for medical drug descriptions.
 Later projects using GF and involving third parties include, in chronological order,
 </P>
 <UL>
-<LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Alfa/Tutorial/GFplugin.html">GF-Alfa</A>: 
+<LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Alfa/Tutorial/GFplugin.html">GF-Alfa</A>:
   natural language interface to formal proofs
 <LI><A HREF="http://efficient.citi.tudor.lu/index_noframe.html">Efficient</A>:
   authoring tool for business models.
-<LI><A HREF="http://www.key-project.org/">GF-KeY</A>: 
+<LI><A HREF="http://www.key-project.org/">GF-KeY</A>:
   authoring and translation of software specifications
-<LI><A HREF="http://www.talk-project.org">TALK</A>: 
+<LI><A HREF="http://www.talk-project.org">TALK</A>:
   multilingual and multimodal spoken dialogue systems
-<LI><A HREF="http://webalt.math.helsinki.fi/">WebALT</A>: 
+<LI><A HREF="http://webalt.math.helsinki.fi/">WebALT</A>:
   multilingual generation of mathematical exercises (commercial project)
-<LI><A HREF="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/sal/">SALDO</A>: 
+<LI><A HREF="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/sal/">SALDO</A>:
   Swedish morphological dictionary based on rules developed for GF and
   <A HREF="http://www.cse.chalmers.se/alumni/markus/FM/">Functional Morphology</A>
 <LI><a href="http://www.molto-project.eu">MOLTO</a>:
@@ -203,13 +203,13 @@ fifty scientific publications (see <A HREF="doc/gf-bibliography.html">GF publica
 </P>
 <H2>Programming in GF</H2>
 <P>
-GF is easy to learn by following the <A HREF="doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial.html">tutorial</A>. 
+GF is easy to learn by following the <A HREF="doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial.html">tutorial</A>.
 You can write your first translator in 15 minutes.
 </P>
 <P>
-GF has an interactive command interpreter, as well as a batch compiler. 
-Grammars can be compiled to parser and translator code in many different 
-formats.  These components can then be embedded in applications written 
+GF has an interactive command interpreter, as well as a batch compiler.
+Grammars can be compiled to parser and translator code in many different
+formats.  These components can then be embedded in applications written
 in other programming languages. The formats currently supported are:
 </P>
 <UL>
@@ -230,11 +230,22 @@ The GF programming language is high-level and advanced, featuring
 <LI>module system with multiple inheritance and parametrized modules
 </UL>
 
+<h3>Getting help</h3>
+<p>
+If you need some help with GF, the first places to start are the <a href="doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial.html">Tutorial</a> and <a href="doc/gf-refman.html">Reference</a> pages.
+The printed <a href="gf-book">book</a> contains all the material in the tutorial and some extra bits, and is the recommended reference for GF.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We run the IRC channel <strong><code>#gf</code></strong> on the Freenode network, where you are welcome to look for help with small questions or just start a general discussion.
+If you have a larger question which the community may benefit from, we recommend you ask it on the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/gf-dev">mailing list</a>.
+</p>
+
 <H2>Libraries</H2>
 <P>
-Libraries are at the heart of modern software engineering. In natural language 
+Libraries are at the heart of modern software engineering. In natural language
 applications, libraries are a way to cope with thousands of details involved in
-syntax, lexicon, and inflection. The 
+syntax, lexicon, and inflection. The
 <A HREF="lib/doc/synopsis.html">GF resource grammar library</A> has
 support for an increasing number of languages, currently including
 </P>
@@ -259,7 +270,7 @@ support for an increasing number of languages, currently including
 <LI>Italian
 <LI>Latin (fragments)
 <LI>Latvian
-<li>Maltese (fragments)
+<li>Maltese
 <LI>Nepali
 <LI>Norwegian bokmål
 <LI>Persian
@@ -277,8 +288,8 @@ support for an increasing number of languages, currently including
 </OL>
 
 <P>
-Adding a language to the resource library takes 3 to 9 
-months - contributions 
+Adding a language to the resource library takes 3 to 9
+months - contributions
 are welcome! You can start with the <A HREF="doc/gf-lrec-2010.pdf">resource grammarian's tutorial</A>.