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=========== GIMP-Help =========== GIMP-Help is a help system designed for use with the internal GIMP help browser, external web browser and HTML renderers, and human eyeballs. Docbook is used to create a highly customizable system for all needs. The current manual documents features for GIMP 2.8. Project page and news ===================== Recent changes and updates about the modules are available at: http://docs.gimp.org Tips for contribution ===================== Write a mail to one of the authors (check the WIKI). They should know what tasks need to be done and can find something to do for you. You should subscribe to the gimp mailing lists to get up to date information of the current GIMP development. What you should know -------------------- You should know a bit about Docbook and XML, or be smart enough to learn the syntax yourself. You can get more information about Docbook and XML by using your preferred search engine. Editors, Programs and Setups ---------------------------- Use any editor you want, but you should handle it well. Please keep in mind, that the tab width in XML Mode should be 2 spaces. It is recommended to attach patches to a bug report. Creating patches with git is probably better described at http://live.gnome.org, but in short: git format-patch HEAD^ to create a patch with your last local commits. Provided you have xmllint installed, you can validate the XML and check the well-formedness of the XML files by running make validate When you edit an XML file and want to quickly check your changes, you can create a single quick-and-dirty HMTL draft file with make src/of/the/xml-file.draft where the target is the path name with extension ".draft" instead of ".xml", or with make preview-src/of/the/xml-file.xml where the path name is preceded with "preview-". The name of the HMTL draft file depends on its id (not on the name of the XML source file!) and is displayed when the file is created. Hints for making good screenshots --------------------------------- * please make screenshots only with the system default theme, which is of course just the plain gtk+ default look * use default fonts like Bitstream Vera Sans * crop the window manager borders * before saving an image as PNG, check if you can convert it to indexed mode without loss of quality (saves space and bandwidth) * provide your source images (eg. for making new screenshots in other languages) TODO ==== see Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=GIMP-manual OMF Files ========= The directory omf holds documentation metadata that describes the user manual and its localized versions. The format is described by the Open Source Metadata Framework (OMF). A good resource on this subject is the ScrollKeeper website: http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/ ODF Files ========= You need docbook2odf installed to create ODF files. Although the transformation process is very slow (because every picture is copied to a temp directory), you can start the transformation by typing: make odf Hint: Set the ALL_LINGUAS environment variable to create ODF files only for a particular language. Docbook2ODF can be obtained from the following website: http://open.comsultia.com/docbook2odf/ HINT: If you get an error opening the created ODT files, open docbook2odf (probably installed in /usr/bin/) in a text editor. Uncomment the line: #use encoding 'utf-8'; and rerun 'make odf'. History of the gimp-help-2 module ================================= The development on the original gimp-help modules came pretty much to a stop after the first few stable versions of GIMP 1.2 were released. This is due to several reasons, one of them being that all of the original documentation had been converted from HTML to DocBook/SGML and apart from a bit new content, lots of markup and proofreading not too much happened to the organisation of the complete mess. Daniel Egger and Mel Boyce were not too happy about the quirks with this help system. So they started completely from scratch creating a new manual based on Docbook/XML.