[Qgis-community-team] switch to pdflatex is over

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

thanks a lot Jean Roc from my side as well! I tested it, it doesn't compile
properly on my machine at the moment, but the result looks already very nice!

Am Fri, 14 May 2010 09:12:45 +0300
schrieb Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>:

> Great work, Jean!
> 
> What about updating wiki pages describing translation and manual
> building process?

yes, we should do that for the next release of the manual. As you might have
seen on the website, we are at the moment looking for more/new documenters,
so we can handle the migration, all new QGIS features and hopefully a
revision of the current manual within the next months.

At the moment I start collecting the new volunteers until end of next
week and then, end of May I will contact all "old" and "new" documenters on
the community-team list, so we can organize the next manual update and all
other work that has to be done. 

BTW: It is always amazing to see how well this community works and how many
people do not hesitate to offer their help! Many thanks for this!

You find a list with all new volunteers and already experienced
documenters here:
http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Manual_Writing#Document_Maintainers
 
Regards,
 Otto

> P.S. Our commutiny will start manual translation to Russian soon. So
> I'll have many questions :-)
>
> 2010/5/13 MORREALE Jean Roc <jr.morreale at enoreth.net>:
> > Le 13/05/2010 21:07, MORREALE Jean Roc a écrit :
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The switch of the documentation trunk to pdflatex is over, there is
> >> some quirks we'll fix asap but most of the manual is correct.
> >>
> >> Main change is that there is no need to use makefiles anymore, if
> >> you're on unix you just have to follow these steps :
> >>
> >> $ pdflatex user_guide.tex which will ask for the biblio $ bibtex
> >> user_guide.aux for the bibliography (which needs to be feed) $
> >> pdflatex user_guide.tex to get the final pdf
> >>
> >> The TeX distribution that has been used is TeXlive 2009 [1], it works
> >> on Windows, MacOS X, linux and comes with a nice GUI called TeXwork.
> >> This editor allow to work with the PDF and the source side by side
> >> (click on the pdf to modify the corresponding tex part).
> >>
> >> One improvement would be to make better screen capture, many can't be
> >>  placed into the tex and have to be put at the end of the section
> >> because of their size but they often have a lot a useless space. My
> >> advice would be to resize your windows and uncheck useless toolbars
> >> when taking a capture
> >>
> >> With these changes any contributor can obtain an updated manual in
> >> 2mn (well if you don't count the texlive's download).
> 
>