[Sugar-devel] [GSoC 2013] Interested in "Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard"

Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 10:59:26 EDT 2013


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
> 2013/4/11 Bastien <bzg at laptop.org>:
>> Hi Kalpa,
>>
>> this is a very nice and much needed project.
>>
>> Let's wait for Chris to chim in.  My take on this is that help files
>> should be stored using a plain text format like MarkDown or Org-mode.
>> It's easier to hack directly, it's easier to read diffs against such
>> files, it's easier to feed a translator with them, and it can then be
>> converted into Mallard (for internal browsing), or HTML (for online
>> documentation) or... anything else.
>>
>> Storing directly in Mallard would be a mistake IMHO.



I know tha Gnome projects use mallard.  I don't really know the string
extraction workflow that results in them being posted to the Damned
Lies server.


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