Documentation: open user invitation to help out

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 6 July 2010, Thomas Bullock wrote:
> Hi Maf,
> 
> Thanks for your quick response.  I had seen that before but did not
>  recognize its importance.  Your reminder made me take a closer look.
> 
> I found a note pointing me to gnucash-docs as a separate package
>  [http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash-docs/trunk/].  This seems to be what
>  I want to work with unless someone has more accurate information.
> 
Although the url starts with http it is not really meant to be used from 
within a browser (other than to, well, *browse* it). If you wish to work on 
the documenation, you should really use the command
svn checkout http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash-docs/trunk gnucash-docs

This will create a copy of the gnucash documentation on your pc in the 
directory gnucash-docs.

> At that site a found a string of module names, each containing a variety of
>  information.  I can see that learning what that means will take me awhile.
>   I will have to make all that work (or try to) before I can go to the next
>  step.
> 
If you wish to edit the documentation (instead of translating it), you will be 
most interested in the directories guide/C and help/C. Those directories 
contain the original English versions of the concepts guide and gnucash 
manual, in xml format.

As I added on the GnuCash Documentation page, you can find some info on 
working with docbook files in the GnuCash Translation wiki page:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation#How_to_translate_the_GnuCash_guide_and.2For_help_files

Geert

P.S. I'd be very happy if you would want document what you learned in the 
process (what info was missing, which parts were hard,...). This will help us 
fill in some gaps in our documentation for contributers. After a while and 
with more experience things seem to become obvious, where they are not at all 
for new contributers. So the fresh look on these things is very valuable to 
us.