[Qgis-community-team] Re: Timeline - manual conventions

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Tara,

Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com>, [20080604 - 09:56:46]

> 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? 

I am done with it and waiting to get it commited since my svn-account
does not seem to work anymore after the merge to OSGeo-infrastructure.

I will give it a try once more to test if my osgeo-id works though.

> 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.

Best

	Stephan

> 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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