Re: Abiword documentation update project started

> So is the plan to change the master files to Docbook and then generate
> HTML/PDF from the Docbook to serve the needs of other platforms?

Yes

> The plan if there is one has not been clearly explained yet. While it
> would be great to get good help in Docbook format for Gnome it would be a
> shame to leave the other platforms behind or an attempt was made to start
> new documentation from scratch instead of refactoring and improving the
> old.

Nothing must be gnome specific

> I always thought the biggest advantage of using ABW as a master format
> would mean at least one platform would use Abiword itself to view the ABW
> help files directly.

In cryptic form:

-> master docbook files
   -> use xml2po to let translators translate the docs
      -> abiword -> HTML (-> WinHelp even?)
      -> something -> OSX's native format
      -> something [1] -> yelp

[1] whatever GNOME people use to convert docbook to something yelp
understand (or yelp does docbook natively, right?)

Marc
            
Received on Fri Sep 1 10:28:34 2006