Translating the Docs

As we approach the eventual release of 1.4, and beyond, we are trying to make an effort to improve the online docs. So far, we are concentrating on the English version (you have to start somewhere), but we hope to have volunteers come forward to help us, not only with the traditional translations to French, German, Czech, and Polish, but also as many others as we can get volunteers for.

Since the Scribus online manual is shown with a simple browser, the files are in HTML. Perhaps the best way to get the most up to date manual is by downloading from svn. Even if you don't plan to compile Scribus, you can download source files, which include the docs. Go HERE for instructions. You must have subversion on your computer (there are ways to use subversion on Windows, but I have not tried).

Where are the docs?
Let's say you put them in a directory named Scribus:

Scribus
 * scribus
 * doc
 * en
 * images

So each of these is a subdirectory of the one above. Inside en/ are the HTML files that make up the documentation, and there is also a file named menu.xml:                 <submenuitem text="Mac OSX/Fink" file="machints1.html"/> <submenuitem text="Mac OSX/Fink &amp; SVN" file="machints2.html"/> <submenuitem text="OS/2 Readme" file="readme-os2.html"/> <submenuitem text="Windows Readme" file="readme-win32.html"/> If you compare this to the menu in the Help Browser you will see how the structure of the menu is created. More importantly, you will see the name of the HTML file associated with each menu item. So the the menu item About the team links to about1.html.