[GNC-dev] Porting the Tutorial & Concepts Guide to ReadTheDocs.org

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi,

I have started to create
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Requirements because I
think, the bug report together with mails on several lists are becoming
muddled.

In a first step we should collect required and desired criterias.
In a secound step we should see which source languages would fulfill
them how far.

Regards
Frank

Am 25.04.20 um 20:16 schrieb Rob Gowin:
> 
>> On Apr 25, 2020, at 2:24 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rob,
>>  
>> Thanks for running this experiment.
>>  
>> The stylesheet used by ReadTheDocs is much more modern than ours and indeed looks much nicer for online consumption. Even the pdf is cleaner.
>>  
>> On the other hand I also have a few concerns/questions:
>> 1. How would a translation flow look like with asciidoc ?
>> 2. Can it support a single master document including sections that should only appear for certain translations ?
>> 3. ReadTheDocs is a hosted service. That's a big change from our current philosophy to self-host as much as possible. Are there self-hosting options ?
>>  
>> Regards,
>>  
>> Geert
> 
> Hi Geert, 
> 
> First off, yes, the documentation can be self hosted. I’ve done that here: https://gnucash-docs-test.codesmythe.net/index.html <https://gnucash-docs-test.codesmythe.net/index.html>. It uses an older stylesheet, so looks a little different, and there’s no PDF there. I have generated a PDF similar to the ReadTheDocs one locally. Note that this experiment uses files in the reStructuredText format, not asciidoc. The reST files are generated from the DocBook files using pandoc.
> 
> For translation: The underlying tool used by ReadTheDocs is the Sphinx Python Doc Generation Project. Their I18N flow is described here: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/advanced/intl.html <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/advanced/intl.html>. I’m no expert in the area, but seems it does support a single master document. I don’t know about sections that should only appear for certain translations.
> 
> I’ll jump on IRC sometime this week to discuss translations in more detail. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rob
> 
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