[Qgis-community-team] Re: Qgis-community-team Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5

[Bogus Zaba]

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>    1. Re: QGIS 1.5 User Guide Update (Otto Dassau)
>    2. Information for new manual contributors (Otto Dassau)
>    3. Re: QGIS 1.5 User Guide Update (Micha Silver)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 09:08:25 +0200
> From: Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] QGIS 1.5 User Guide Update
> To: nikos ves <vesnikos at gmail.com>
> Cc: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org, bogus at bogzab.plus.com
> Message-ID: <20100607090825.6c34e705 at nature.site>
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> Hi,
>
> sorry, I am just very busy at the moment with other things. I will add you
> to the svn today and write more.
>
>  Otto
>
> Am Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:15:38 +0300
> schrieb nikos ves <vesnikos at gmail.com>:
>
>   
>> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:17 +0200, Otto Dassau wrote:
>>     
>>> I will later write more about the manual
>>> update and how to work with subversion. I already have the IDs from
>>> David,
>>> Martijn and Nick. 
>>>
>>>  Otto 
>>>       
>> I'm waiting eagerly for svn access and more info on manual update. 
>>
>> On side note, anyone can sent me resources on how to I can compile it on
>> an debian(ubuntu) box?
>>     
>
>
>   
>> cheers  
>>     
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 09:49:59 +0200
> From: Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de>
> Subject: [Qgis-community-team] Information for new manual contributors
> To: qgis-community <qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Hi Bogus, David, Martijn and Ves,
>
> I just started to grant svn access for you. Please try to checkout the
> manual with your osgeo ids - see below.
>
> more instructions on how to work on the english qgis manual in trunk
>
> a) Please read the wiki page. It includes a lot of hints:
> http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Manual_Writing
>
> b) General information about working with latex and subversion
> http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Working_with_Subversion_and_Latex
>
> Unfortunately, not all information is uptodate in the wiki page at the
> moment. I will update it as soon as possible. So please ask, if you have
> problems on the list and I will help.
>
> how to download the current trunk:
>
> You should be able to download the documentation trunk ('master'-document)
> as a named user with your osgeo id. For a clean checkout you need a
> svn-client. 
>
> # Checkout as a named user
> svn co --username <your username here>
> https://svn.osgeo.org/qgis/docs/trunk/english_us/
>
> # Building
>
> To build the user_guide as a PDF-doc, change into the folder user_guide and
> do the following:
>
> change into trunk/english_us/user_guide and type 
>
> pdflatex user_guide.tex
>
> if it doesn't compile properly with a PDF as output, please write to the
> list, because we just migrated from texlive to pdflatex and might be some
> errors left.
>
> Regards,
>  Otto
>
>
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>   
All this worked just fine for me. SVN downloaded the sources and 
pdflatex compiled it into a PDF.

Bogus