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Re: [udig-devel] User Guide direction
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We are also thinking of making a user friendly web version for viewing
at-least (Thanks Paul S). The next step would be to create a module for
confluence or drupal to edit the svn content using Wiki formats ... (I
realize this has probably been done in one of the open-source Wikis, so
someone (volunteers?) would have to grab this and work with it).
David
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 09:12, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I have come to fairly difficult decision - we have had a fairly good run
> at maintaining the User's Guide on the confluence wiki.
>
> This has helped is in a number of areas:
> - it has allowed us to write the online help in cooperation with the
> community
> - it has allowed the easy cross linking of content
>
> There have been a few downsides: wiki syntax, the export process
> (involves the manual generation of table of contents files), codehaus
> availability.
>
> Over the next couple of weeks we will be updating the user's guide, and
> starting the process of internationalization.
> While the online help has always been considered "source code" this next
> batch of work will really make this distinction clear.
> As an example individual views will link directly to pages using the F1 key.
>
> The online help is already exported to subversion:
> - http://svn.geotools.org/udig/trunk/plugins/net.refractions.udig.help/
>
> I am unhappy that separation makes community documentation contributions
> harder. At this junction I don't see any other way to proceed.
> Suggestions are welcome and would be deeply appreciated.
>
> Here is an eclipse plugin that does 90% of everything we need when
> making online help:
> -
> http://www.bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features/web/tinyHTMLTools/toc.html
>
> The killer app is save&link screen snapshot with a keyboard shortcut.
>
> Jody
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