[scribus] some fun with the Scribus manual

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Thu Dec 10 12:29:55 UTC 2015


On 12/10/2015 12:56 AM, Owen wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:15:08 -0500
> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe this will suggest a bridge to a stripping out of the online
>> manual, but anyway I provide this as a means for people to play with
>> their manuals.
>>
>> What I have done is create an XSLT file to go with the documentation.
>>
>> I named mine "scribus_manual.xsl", so one thing to do is find the
>> location of the menu.xml file, and add this as a second line:
>>
>> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="scribus_manual.xsl"?>
>>
>> Now make a new file, scribus_manual.xsl, and put this text in it:
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for that and using murphy's law, the first thing I clicked on
> was WwTables.htm.  It wasn't there.
> 
> I am using the latest svn and it isn't there either.
> 
> owen at LM-17 ~/Downloads/Scribus150/Scribus $ find ./|grep Ww|grep en
> ./doc/en/WwLines.html
> ./doc/en/WwShapes.html
> ./doc/en/WwFrames.html
> ./doc/en/WwText.html
> ./doc/en/WwImages.html
> ./doc/en/WwRenderframes.html
> ./doc/en/WwStyles.html
> ./doc/en/WwFill.html
> ./doc/it/WwRenderframes.html
> 
> 

There are a number of holes in the manual. What you get in Scribus is
the intro page, and may not realize it. The problem with the Tables
documentation is the Tables implementation...

Greg




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