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

[Otto Dassau]

> > 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>
> > Message-ID: <20100607094959.76f74621 at nature.site>
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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
>
> All this worked just fine for me. SVN downloaded the sources and 
> pdflatex compiled it into a PDF.

please, also test, if you are able to commit changes.

thanks
 Otto

> Bogus
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