[Qgis-community-team] Manual update plans

[Otto Dassau]

Am Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:36:38 +0100
schrieb MORREALE Jean Roc <jr.morreale at enoreth.net>:

> Le 19/03/2010 16:08, Werner Macho a écrit :
> > Hi! I'm mainly on finding new ways for translation and have to do my
> > own little project but if i can help you in any way just give me
> > something to write :) what about the transition to pdflatex? Regards
> > werner
> >
> > 2010/3/19, Otto Dassau<otto.dassau at gmx.de>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I will try to update the manual during the hackfest until monday.
> >> I will just go through the todo list in the qgis wiki from top to
> >> bottom http://www.qgis.org/wiki/ManualTasks and see how far I get.
> >>
> >> I hope this is ok, although this breaks the contributor list we
> >> created together in http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Manual_Writing, but i
> >> think it would be good to catch up a little bit.
> >>
> >> Regards, Otto _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >
> 
> a big +1 for pdflatex, the main steps are :
> - cp *.png ../finalpix/ in each screenshot folders' makefile
> - add it to /usepackage in qgis_style.sty
> - pdflatex $(FILE).pdf in the main makefile
> - delete dvips and all the .eps call

a big +1 also from me, but we should first update the content for the
last and then probably for the soon upcoming release, before we start
working on the pdflatex changes.

If anybody has time to join me updating the manual I would be thankful,
of course. The task list is here: http://www.qgis.org/wiki/ManualTasks,
just pick a section, tell us your plan and start :).

Regards,
 Otto