[Qgis-community-team] Collaborative platform for the documentation

[MORREALE Jean Roc]

Le 23/11/2010 14:40, Otto Dassau a écrit :
> Paolo was even thinking about writing a QGIS plugin for the translation of
> the docs - maybe this could be a solution, too.

I don't think it would be a good to make our own tool for that purpose 
as it would limit the help we could get from other projects on this matter.

> a) Find something to use instead of latex, that is easier to learn and can
> produce nice html and PDF files.

The use of restructured text/Docutils would make it possible to to keep 
a possible latex output while gaining others.


> Am Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:10:01 +0100
> schrieb MORREALE Jean Roc<jr.morreale at enoreth.net>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like if any decisions has been taken during the hack-fest
>> regarding the translation's environment. There has been talks about it
>> on the french osgeo's mailing-list due to growing needs in this regard
>> (new doc for qgis, postgis's translation, etc.).
>>
>> A few names have been evocated :
>> - launchpad
>> - pootle
>> - etherpad
>> - sphinx (https://bitbucket.org/lehmannro/sphinx-i18n/src)
>> - transifex
>> - po4a
>> - and other words like rst, docbook etc.
>>
>> I'm not the biggest supporter of online editing tool but I've to admit
>> that these tools are a good way to get non-technical newcomers working
>> without stunning them with svn, texlive and all that jazz. A perfect
>> solution would allows simple edition in the broswer while not forbidding
>> offline work (Qt Linguist is really great).
>>
>> The devs will switch to git, the translators have to get a new shiny
>> thing too !
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jean Roc
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