[Qgis-developer] proposal for migrating QGIS documentation to reST/Sphinx

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

we started to work on a solution for the documentation and we decided to
migrate the docs from latex to rst - but this has not happened yet. At this
point we have the docs in git and we plan to start using the online tools
provided by github to work on the englisch manual (latex) for the next
release.

For the future we will convert the latex sources to rst and we are still
open and thinking about an optimal solution for the translation process.
Help and ideas is always welcome.

That's what I can say for the manual/documentation. I remember I had a look
at Sphinx some time ago. I liked it but haven't seen a solution for the
manual translations with it - maybe that has changed.

I guess, Werner can say more about the GUI and its translation. 

Regards
Otto

Am Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:10:56 +0100
schrieb Marco Bernasocchi <marco at bernawebdesign.ch>:

> Hi all, I m not shure, but hasn't somebody already done sth in that
> direction? Maybe was it Yves. I remember sth from the hackfest in Zh
> Ciao
> On Jan 9, 2012 4:02 PM, "Paolo Corti" <pcorti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Alessandro!
> >
> > >
> > > We've also shortly talked about automatically build language-specific
> > > snapshots of the QGIS GUI with a custom sphinx directive.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, latest Sphinx version has a first class support for
> > internationalization [1], so it should not be too hard to build an
> > optimal solution for QGIS out of the box.
> > We could then make the .po files editable by the Pootle web
> > application [2], so every translator would have a pleasant editing
> > experience and we could implement desired workflows.
> >
> > > Great to know you're willing to help, certainly you already know that
> > > the new plugins web infrastructure is built upon our beloved Django :)
> > >
> >
> > Oh yes, nice app! I have seen that, and I think you will be happy to
> > know that Pootle is developed in Django as well :)
> > So please let me know if I may go further with those experiments and
> > design a more detailed proposal
> >
> > ciao
> > P
> >
> > [1] http://sphinx.pocoo.org/intl.html
> > [2] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index?redirect=1
> >
> > --
> > Paolo Corti
> > Geospatial software developer
> > web: http://www.paolocorti.net
> > twitter: @capooti
> > skype: capooti
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