[work] Re: [Qgis-community-team] editors list

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Tara,

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:49:24 -0700
Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com> wrote:

> Otto- I did not even consider that there might be a problem in creating 
> html versions of the manual with the new conventions!
> This is something we better test soon. I have only been creating dvi 
> files for viewing.

yes, I will have a look,  check and prepair the html conversion. But it might
take some time.

> On the older manuals, it seems odd to me that we only supply the pdf 
> version - I hadn't noticed that only the current html version was 
> available from the documentation wiki page.  So I would say yes, please 
> do generate html for the old manuals when you have a chance (although 
> this is certainly not our highest priority).

ok, I can do that from when I have some time left. Some time ago (I don't
remember when) we decided to provide only pdfs and stopped creating html and
postscript versions. 

> I would put greater importance on making the current manual available as 
> html online (as opposed to download). This is important for people who 
> have not yet decided if they want to use QGIS, and want more information 
> about it. We have already had one complaint on this, and where one 
> person has taken the trouble to speak up, there are probably many who 
> were annoyed or discouraged and never said anything.

yes, you are right, starting with the new release we will provide pdf and html
and I will also generate one by one a html version for the old manuals. 

> Tara
> 
> Otto Dassau wrote:
> > Hi Tara,
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:36:33 -0700
> > Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Another administrative question: in the forward, we say that the latest 
> >> version of the documentation can be obtained from
> >> http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/manual/
> >>
> >> But this directory only contains pdf, not html.
> >> Can we also add the html tarballs to this directory?
> >>     
> >
> > yes, but I would have to build them for older versions again. Would you like
to
> > have it for older version, too, or from now on...
> >
> >   
> >> Also, is there some reason we cannot publish the html version of the 
> >> manual on the website directly as html?
> >>     
> >
> > no reason, but we will have to test, if the new styles can be converted to
> > html. If it works I would also like to have the new manual online as html. I
> > also thought we add the html version to QGIS sources, so everybody
installing
> > QGIS has a local html copy to work with. Currently it is the PDF.
> >
> > regards,
> >  Otto
   
> >> Tara