How To Convert a UserBase Manual to Docbook/nl

Inleiding

Het beschreven proces is niet afgewerkt, de code is lelijk, niet intelligent genoeg, enzovoorts... het enige excuus is dat het werkt

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Wil je meehelpen om het proces te verbeteren, heb je goede kennis van Python, en ken je de Docbook-standaarden, dan kun je meehelpen om de procedure te verbeteren. Contacteer Yurchor (Engels) als je kunt helpen.

Preparing Pages for Conversion

• Check that the pages of your manual follow the author guidelines of UserBase and typographical guidelines.

• Check if every page has its header according to the level of this page in table of contents.

Reference table

UserBase	Docbook	Comment
==Section==	<chapter>
===Section===	<sect1>
====Section====	<sect2>
=====Section=====	<sect3>
======Section======	<sect4>	Avoid using this last level if possible

• Check if all table cells have space after the pipe character. This rule conforms with traditional wiki formatting.

• Make application name formatting consistent (avoid using Amaroks, do use Amarok's).

• Ensure that all images are in PNG format.

• Remove all non-printable characters from image names.

Export

• Prepare the page list (strip from UserBase addresses http://userbase.kde.org). Example for Amarok:

Amarok
Amarok/QuickStartGuide
Amarok/QuickStartGuide/GettingStarted
Amarok/QuickStartGuide/TheAmarokWindow
Amarok/QuickStartGuide/TheMusicCollection
Amarok/QuickStartGuide/Playlists
Amarok/QuickStartGuide/TheContextView
Amarok/QuickStartGuide/HowToDealWithProblems
Amarok/QuickStartGuide/Glossary
Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow
Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow/Toolbar
Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow/MediaSources
Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow/ContextPane
Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow/PlaylistPane
Amarok/Manual/ConfiguringAmarok
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/CollectionScanning
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/CoverManager
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/DynamicPlaylists
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/AutomaticPlaylistGenerator
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/ExternalDatabase
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/AFT
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/Moodbar
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/WorkingWithMediaDevices
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/SavedPlaylists
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/PlaylistFiltering
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/QueueManager
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/SearchInCollection
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/TagEditor
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/OrganizeCollection
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/Transcoding
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/ScriptManager
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/RemoteCollections
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/RemoteCollections/Ampache
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/RemoteCollections/DAAP
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/RemoteCollections/Samba
Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/RemoteCollections/UPnP
Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/AmarokMenu
Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/ViewMenu
Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/Playlist
Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/Tools
Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/Settings
Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/Help
Amarok/Manual/KeybindingReference
Amarok/Manual/KeybindingReference/GlobalShortcuts
Amarok/Manual/KeybindingReference/AmarokShortcuts
Amarok/Manual/TroubleshootingAndCommonProblems
Amarok/Manual/AmarokOnOtherPlatforms/Non-KDE Desktops
Amarok/Manual/AmarokOnOtherPlatforms/Windows
Amarok/Manual/AmarokOnOtherPlatforms/OSX
Amarok/Manual/FAQ
Amarok/Manual/Credits_and_License

Tip

You can obtain the full list of pages for your application with the following script:

<DPL>
  nottitlematch = %/__|%/zh-%|%(%)
  titlematch = Amarok%
  namespace = Main
  columns = 1
  format = ,\n* [[%PAGE%|%TITLE%]],,
</DPL>

Replace Amarok with the name of your application, put it on your user page, and click on Preview. Rearrange the list according to the ToC of your manual.

• Go to the export page.

• Paste the page list into the bigger text field.

• Click on Export.

Export of Amarok manual pages

• Save the file. The saved file will be called Manual.xml in what follows.

Conversion

• Install Subversion package for your system.

• Checkout the latest version of conversion script:

  svn checkout --depth=files svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/doc/

• Copy Manual.xml to the script folder.

• Run

  python wiki2docbook.py Manual.xml

  if you want to download all screenshots (it takes some time to download all images from UserBase, grep and wget should be installed), or

  python wiki2docbook.py -s Manual.xml

  if you need not to download images.

Post-processing

• Rename Manual.xml.docbook to index.docbook.

• Check if conversion was done correctly:

  checkXML index.docbook

• Fix the errors (better on UserBase pages).

• Convert docbook to HTML:

  meinproc4 index.docbook

• Check HTML pages (all images should be visible, links should not lead to 404-pages).

• Replace big images by thumbnails using convert from ImageMagick

• Fix links in docbook, so they lead to docbook section, not UserBase pages.

• Fix application name according to KDE entity list.

• Copy index.docbook and images to your /doc folder and commit them to repository.

K3b docs on UserBase in Opera and converted page in Konqueror.