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

2012-01-11 Thread Wenzeslaus
Hi, I think that pdf should be generated from latex source, because latex is the best tool for producing pdf (IMHO). So conversion from rst to latex is necessary. But I know it is not easy task. Wenzeslaus On 9 January 2012 22:38, Yves Jacolin (free) yjaco...@free.fr wrote: Le lundi 9 janvier

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

2012-01-09 Thread Paolo Corti
Hi all I am new to this list, as I am new to the QGIS development workflows, but I am generally very interested in best practices for keeping documentation. Together with Paolo Cavallini, we have been considering which best practices could be considered for keeping the QGIS documentation. You

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

2012-01-09 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
2012/1/9 Paolo Corti pco...@gmail.com: Hi all I am new to this list, as I am new to the QGIS development workflows, but I am generally very interested in best practices for keeping documentation. Together with Paolo Cavallini, we have been considering which best practices could be

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

2012-01-09 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 09/01/2012 11:30, Paolo Corti ha scritto: I would like to hear your opinion about eventually migrating the whole QGIS project docs to Sphinx. I am ready to contribute to this, if this idea is well receipt from all of you :) I think the barrier for new doc translators is currently rather

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

2012-01-09 Thread Paolo Corti
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

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

2012-01-09 Thread Marco Bernasocchi
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 pco...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alessandro! We've also shortly talked about automatically build language-specific

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

2012-01-09 Thread 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

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

2012-01-09 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 09/01/2012 17:36, Otto Dassau ha scritto: 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

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

2012-01-09 Thread Otto Dassau
Am Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:41:22 +0100 schrieb Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it: Il 09/01/2012 17:36, Otto Dassau ha scritto: 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

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

2012-01-09 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 09/01/2012 18:08, Otto Dassau ha scritto: Migration is one thing and the other is that we are on the one hand lucky to have so many people who help us translating the manual but on the other hand only a few people are interested in updating the englisch master document. So before people can

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

2012-01-09 Thread Yves Jacolin (free)
Hello, As I said before, I can help to migrate documentation to rst. I am using rst frequently for all the documentation so it is not a problem for me. The only issue I see is to create nice PDF documentation. I tested rst2odt which could help with pdf generator inside OOo but the rst2odt

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

2012-01-09 Thread Ivan Mincik
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Yves Jacolin (free) yjaco...@free.fr wrote: Hello, As I said before, I can help to migrate documentation to rst. I am using rst frequently for all the documentation so it is not a problem for me. The only issue I see is to create nice PDF documentation. I