Thanks for the info so far guys! I'm actually quite familiar with XML through writing manifests, though I don't imagine this knowledge will really be applicable to documentation editing, as the purposes of the two are very different.
I'll do a bit of research on the workflow to better understand how this all works (is the definitive guide still useful? <http://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.0/ch01.html>). In the mean time, if any there's any less-critical work that I could get started on, let me know and I'd be glad to help! Best, Morgan On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Pat David <patda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Julien, > > Is there a list (or maybe off the top of your head you'll know) of a > couple of simple places a new contributor could get their feet wet helping > out? Maybe something relatively easy to get accustomed to the workflow? > > Also, is the workflow for participating something we should document on > the website somewhere also? I'm happy to help get a page setup with your > info! > > pat > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:34 AM Marco Ciampa via gimp-docs-list < > gimp-docs-list@gnome.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 12:30:58PM -0400, Morgan Lupton wrote: >> > Hey everyone, >> > >> > I'm a big fan of this project, and I've been a GIMP user for many years. >> > I'm by no means a skilled enough developer to contribute in code, but I >> > would like to lend a hand by writing, editing, formatting or modifying >> any >> > GIMP documentation that needs extra work. >> > >> > I've written countless enterprise docs for clients during my employment >> at >> > Red Hat as a consultant, including wikis, procedural guides, and >> reference >> > glossaries. I've recently returned from a position as a site reliability >> > engineer over in Europe and am hoping to transition into a technical >> > writing role stateside, which I believe is a better fit for my skills >> and >> > experience. >> > >> > Is there a documentation Github page or taskboard you can point me >> towards? >> > Most of the docs I've written aren't really publicly available, but I do >> > have a short procedural doc I can send your way if it's necessary to >> > provide a sample. >> > >> > Let me know if you need anything else, looking forward to helping out >> the >> > GIMP Team! >> > >> > Best, >> > Morgan >> >> Hi Morgan and welcome aboard! >> >> I'm the Italian translator of the manual, so please forgive my bad >> English. The GIMP manual is written in docbook-xml, and converted by the >> source code present in its repository in PDF and HTML. The strings are >> automatically extracted by a series of very smart scripts and Makefiles >> into .po files (see the gettext docs) for the use of us -translators-. >> Translated strings are then riconverted into docbook by means of the same >> scripts to obtain the different languages versions of the docs. The >> mechanism is very smart. In this way translators can focus on the >> translation and every small modification or update in the original source >> text will automatically transmitted to the translations in the form of >> marked strings to update/translate. >> >> It is very important to understand the mechanism and keep it working to >> permit to translators to work. >> >> Docbook permits also to have "anchors" in the text that make the "context >> help" through the pressing of the F1 key work inside GIMP. >> >> Hope this help you clarify matter... >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> >> >> Marco Ciampa >> >> I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. >> >> ------------------------ >> >> GNU/Linux User #78271 >> FSFE fellow #364 >> >> ------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gimp-docs-list mailing list >> gimp-docs-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list >> > -- > https://patdavid.net > GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D 18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-docs-list mailing list > gimp-docs-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list > > -- G. Morgan Lupton IV College of Arts & Sciences '15 Department of Computer Science University of Virginia +1-434-209-0123
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