[Qgis-developer] Editing rst files

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi Larry, nice ! Is the code already available somewhere?
Ciao

Marco Bernasocchi (mobile)
http://opengis.ch
On May 7, 2012 6:43 PM, "Larry Shaffer" <larrys at dakotacarto.com> wrote:

> Hi Paolo,
>
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>wrote:
>
>> Il 06/05/2012 02:03, Larry Shaffer ha scritto:
>> >
>> > For a large .rst project like the QGIS manual, it may not be much
>> > different than using a separate text editor. Having Plugin Editor
>> > embedded (installed) in QGIS offers the advantages of consistency of
>> > interface/tools and portability, useful for new plugin developers and
>> > teaching/seminar environments. There are many clever things you can do
>> > with it, but if you are already an experienced developer, you may find
>> > its features only occasionally useful compared with your current
>> workflow.
>>
>
>
>> I'm now thinking more to the documentation writer, which is not
>> necessarily a developer (most probably not). So anything we can do to
>> make her/his life easier, the better documentation will have, I guess.
>> I'm thinking of:
>> - fetching automatically manual sources
>> - emitting pull requests with a button, after manual production
>> - preview of the compiled manual
>> - automatically incorporating screenshots
>> - etc.
>> All the best.
>>
>
> This is an interesting set of documentation tools that I am now going to
> add to Plugin Editor, and have adjusted the plugin's releases accordingly.
> The first release will be for other devs to beta-test the text editor and
> plugin tools. The second for beta-testing documentation tools and
> commenting on the embedded tutorial (created with Sphinx). Then, after
> re-working the plugin, finally a public release.
>
> Here is what I am planning for regular (not plugin strings) documentation
> tools:
>
> - Function for rst -> output generation
> - Refresh-able graphic tool for previewing .rst files (ala ReText or temp
> Sphinx builds)
> - Function for generating translation .pot files
> - Function for viewing translations (see your plugin in another language)
> - Tool for capturing screeshots of the QGIS interface window(s) (using
> QPixmap static methods [0][1]), dumping to correct screenshots folder, then
> copying doc-folder-relative link to clipboard (is this what you meant by
> 'automatically incorporating screenshots'?)
>
> Concerning source control, I have specifically not designed anything into
> Plugin Editor, except for one button to launch your SCM app of choice
> (GitHub for Mac, for example). So, source control is managed outside of the
> Editor.
>
> My main design focus of the plugin is to ensure portability and,
> ultimately, to require no additional installs beyond QGIS and Qt dev tools.
> This means zero (or optional) reliance upon command line tools like 'make',
> etc., relying instead upon mostly pure Python solutions.
>
> [0] http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qpixmap.html#grabWidget
> [1] http://doc.qt.nokia.com/main-snapshot/desktop-screenshot.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Larry Shaffer
> Dakota Cartography
> Black Hills, South Dakota
>
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