[Gimp-docs] GIMP manual writing in 2009

[Alessandro Falappa]

Axel,
    your proposal is indeed original and tackles the problems from a 
whole different point of view.
By looking at the Blender documentation example I acknowledge that there 
are indeed a lot of advantages in the "wiki way" especially as far as 
authoring and proofreading is concerned.

As Julien  pointed out I haven't properly got how a translator can 
actually translate a topic but from a user perspective I guess it would 
end up having something like Wikipedia where in the side bar you have 
"Other languages: English Deutsch ...". May be you coud add a sample 
page in your proof of concept wiki where you show how it looks when you 
make a topic available in more than one language?

Another big issue to think about is how to ship the manual in a packaged 
form to let users install an offline copy of it alongside the GIMP 
application. Is it possible? How do you think to solve this?

Other issues:
What about the context sensitive help invocation mechanism?
What's the impact on GIMP code?

Greets.

Axel Wernicke ha scritto:
> Hi List,
> ...
>
> I propose to wholeheartly and open minded discuss alternatives. Please 
> have a look into 
> http://lexaikon.dnsalias.org/~medius/mediawiki/index.php/Meta/Why_GIMP-Manual_as_wiki#Pro.27s_.26_Con.27s 
> <http://lexaikon.dnsalias.org/%7Emedius/mediawiki/index.php/Meta/Why_GIMP-Manual_as_wiki#Pro.27s_.26_Con.27s> 
> and let me know what you think about it.
>
> Greetings, lexA 


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