Thinking in GIS
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Managing documentation's translations with Open Source tools
Posted: January 05, 2012Categories: Sphinx, GIS, po4a, reST
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Today together with Paolo Cavallini, I have been trying to figure out a workflow for managing documentation's translations for QGIS.There are many tools for managing documentation workflows out there: a common approach to which I have been exposed by following both the Python and the OSGeo communities is to keep the documentation source files in the reStructured Text markup format, and to generate the end user documentation with tools like docutils and Sphinx to a bunch of different formats (i.e. html, odt, pdf, latex... just to name a few).Python documentation itself and two wide spread GIS projects like MapServer and...
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