[Qgis-community-team] Timeline - manual conventions

[Tara Athan]

Stephan - thanks for your offer of assistance!  Once the qgis website is 
back on track, I will post trac tickets for each of the sections, and 
assign sections 4-7 to you.
Does June 15 seem like a reasonable date to get this conversion completed?
By that time, I plan to have a new dataset up on the website, and then 
we would move on the next task, which is modifying examples, or adding 
them, based on a consistent dataset.

Thanks, Tara

PS - Community Team: we still need lots of help applying these 
conventions to the other sections. This is a test - do we have enough 
support from the community team to boost the quality of the manual?

Stephan Holl wrote:
> Hallo Tara,
>
> Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com>, [20080601 - 01:12:59]
>
>   
>> 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.
>>
>> *********************************************************************
>> * 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)?
>>     
>
> I volunteer to update section 4-7 to include the new macro-usage.
>
>   
>> ***********************************************************************
>> * 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.
>> *******************************************************************************
>> * 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.
>> ***************************************************************************************
>>     
>
>
> Do you have posted a timeline for updating the manuel so far?
>
> Best regards
>
> 	Stephan
>
>
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Tara Athan
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