Dear Allin and Riccardo,<div><br></div><div>First let me say that Gretl is, in my humble opinion, the best package for econometric studies. It is intuitive, reliable, portable and free. So I would like to thank you for the great job.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Today Gretl is used in undergraduate teaching at the university where I do my doctorate and is used (through my disclosure :-)) by the macroeconomic department at the bank where I work (this bank is one of the largest in Latin America).</div>

<div><br></div><div>Nowadays, in addition to divulgation, I have helped in the development of Gretl through translations (GUI, Wikipedia, website and manuals) and bug reporting. Due to the fact I&#39;m not a programmer, unfortunately, I see no other way to help :-(</div>

<div><br></div><div>To increase my contribution to the Gretl project, I will try to examine very carefully the user guide looking for errors and seeing if I can help to improve it with some subject that I have enough knowledge.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Um abraço,</div><div>Henrique</div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/20 Allin Cottrell <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cottrell@wfu.edu">cottrell@wfu.edu</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

No, I&#39;m not asking for money ;-) But I am asking for something. As<br>
you may know, there are only two regular gretl coders, myself and<br>
Jack Lucchetti. (Others have contributed code from time to time,<br>
for which many thanks.) It&#39;s difficult for us to keep up with all<br>
the coding that needs to be done and also to write all the<br>
documentation. I&#39;m thinking that documentation is something that<br>
others could reasonably help with, particularly in the run-up to<br>
gretl 2.0, which is likely to come out later this year.<br>
<br>
So here&#39;s the suggestion. Please take a look at the Gretl User&#39;s<br>
Guide with various questions in mind:<br>
<br>
* Are some parts out of date? (Quite likely.) If so, see if you<br>
can update them.<br>
<br>
* Are there things missing? The short answer is Yes. For example,<br>
estimation of simultaneous equations systems should have a chapter<br>
in the &quot;Econometric methods&quot; part of the Guide. And I started a<br>
chapter on forecasting but left several sections empty, partly<br>
because I don&#39;t have time to work on this and partly because I&#39;m<br>
no expert on the topic. You may notice other omissions.<br>
<br>
* Is the organization wrong? (Quite possibly.) Then give us a<br>
suggested reorganization.<br>
<br>
If you see something that&#39;s out of date or missing, please send us<br>
a draft of an improvement or new text. The User&#39;s Guide is in TeX<br>
in its source form, but you don&#39;t have to write TeX if that&#39;s<br>
unfamiliar to you. And if you&#39;re not a native English speaker,<br>
never mind; we can edit what you send.<br>
<br>
I&#39;d suggest that if you&#39;d like to write -- or at least make a<br>
start on -- a substantial new section of the Guide, you post to<br>
this list announcing your intention, then we won&#39;t have duplicated<br>
effort. When you have something ready to submit, I suggest<br>
emailing it to myself and/or Jack in the first instance, in<br>
whatever format you find easiest.<br>
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Allin Cottrell<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Henrique C. de Andrade<br>Doutorando em Economia Aplicada<br>Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul<br><a href="http://www.ufrgs.br/ppge">www.ufrgs.br/ppge</a><br>


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