On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 12:30:58PM -0400, Morgan Lupton wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm a big fan of this project, and I've been a GIMP user for many years. > I'm by no means a skilled enough developer to contribute in code, but I > would like to lend a hand by writing, editing, formatting or modifying any > GIMP documentation that needs extra work. > > I've written countless enterprise docs for clients during my employment at > Red Hat as a consultant, including wikis, procedural guides, and reference > glossaries. I've recently returned from a position as a site reliability > engineer over in Europe and am hoping to transition into a technical > writing role stateside, which I believe is a better fit for my skills and > experience. > > Is there a documentation Github page or taskboard you can point me towards? > Most of the docs I've written aren't really publicly available, but I do > have a short procedural doc I can send your way if it's necessary to > provide a sample. > > Let me know if you need anything else, looking forward to helping out the > GIMP Team! > > Best, > Morgan Hi Morgan and welcome aboard! I'm the Italian translator of the manual, so please forgive my bad English. The GIMP manual is written in docbook-xml, and converted by the source code present in its repository in PDF and HTML. The strings are automatically extracted by a series of very smart scripts and Makefiles into .po files (see the gettext docs) for the use of us -translators-. Translated strings are then riconverted into docbook by means of the same scripts to obtain the different languages versions of the docs. The mechanism is very smart. In this way translators can focus on the translation and every small modification or update in the original source text will automatically transmitted to the translations in the form of marked strings to update/translate. It is very important to understand the mechanism and keep it working to permit to translators to work. Docbook permits also to have "anchors" in the text that make the "context help" through the pressing of the F1 key work inside GIMP. Hope this help you clarify matter... Regards, -- Marco Ciampa I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. ------------------------ GNU/Linux User #78271 FSFE fellow #364 ------------------------ _______________________________________________ gimp-docs-list mailing list gimp-docs-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list
