[Qgis-community-team] manual conventions

[Tara Athan]

I have added a subsection to the Forward (in the Manual) to define style 
conventions, and implemented the styles in the Getting Started section.
The conventions are defined as macros, so that we can easily change a 
convention and have it be uniformly applied throughout the manual. 
Examples are Buttons, Menu Options, text input by users and so on. Also 
included are macros that apply to instructions that are 
platform-specific- see the Starting QGIS section for a demonstration.

The actual styles are placeholders- we can modify them to provide better 
visual cues to the reader. For example, we can add icons for the 
platform-specific instructions. At present the \tab macro is just a copy 
of the \button macro, but someone (with more latex experience than I) 
might write a style that looks more like a tab.

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* For this to work, we need all sections of the manual to be updated to 
use these macros. 
* Would anyone like to volunteer to update a section (4-13) or appendix 
(A-H)?
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* We may find a need for additional macros as we go through the rest of 
the sections- please let us know if you
* find a situation that doesn't fit into any of the existing macros and 
we will add a new one to the list.
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* Would anyone like to improve the macros? When I compile, (on Windows) 
I have missing font problems so I can't really
* tell what it looks like. Ideally, the manual item should look very 
similar to the GUI item.
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Thanks in advance for your help,
Tara