A belated follow-up that has been sitting on my desktop ... On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 22:45 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote: > Has docbook something like ifdef ? Yes, although the exact mechanism for XML escapes my ability to recall at the moment. > So a > > make fedora > > would produce the manuals in Fedora oder Ubuntu flavor ? Right. I think the mechanics of sharing a common base with distro variants is the easy part. The hard part is stuff such as - different community styles; different expectations of quality, quantity, etc.; different writing styles; difficulty in creating an upstream with the authority to enforce style guidelines, etc. > Another problem I hit several times is to keep various languages in > sync. If you don`t see excatly what changed in the original-document, > it`s near to impossible. > > So keeping the documentation per chapter or even smaller in a cvs would > help. We typically do this modularity for DocBook, sometimes down to the <section>-per-file. Not sure how this would work with the POT file; perhaps there could be some way to group/ungroup/regroup from modular files. - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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