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Re: Off Line documentation.

 

Thanks. It seems that a lubuntu-manual branch based on
lp:ubuntu-manual is the way to go, which make possible to merge some
changes from lp:ubuntu-manual when it's useful. It's sad to see that
it's difficult to export LaTeX to html format :-(

Regards,
Julien Lavergne

2013/6/9 Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Sorry Julien,
>
> my bad! the logs are at
> http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-manual/2013/ubuntu-manual.2013-06-08-18.11.html
> (Lubuntu discussion starts at 20:32)
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 9 June 2013 09:06, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, I was not able to attempt the meeting :-/ Do you have the log
>> of the meeting somewhere ?
>>
>> 2013/6/9 Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Hi Boss,
>> >
>> > I do not want to steal Steve's (Yorvik) praise for doggedly progressing
>> > this, and I am sure he will write up a full account. But to quickly
>> > answer
>> > the main question I had for cd based documentation.....
>> >
>> >> Can a lubuntu manual be in pdf foramt and will it retain 'clickable
>> >> links'
>> >> within the document? -- YES
>> >
>> >
>> > As such, I no longer see a need for us to divert resources between
>> > manual &
>> > mallard. I have cancelled mallard for lubuntu (it was there as the fall
>> > back). To give an idea of disk space needed, the last manual from ubuntu
>> > was
>> > 8.2 Mb That is just the english version, the languages that it is
>> > available
>> > in are listed at http://ubuntu-manual.org/downloads We would obviously
>> > have
>> > to make our own translations for lubuntu pages / chapters etc.
>> >
>> > So, how much room would be available? I'm hopeful the image can squeeze
>> > in ~
>> > 8.2Mb English version, but how many other languages can / should we aim
>> > to
>> > add?
>>
>> We can find some room for this. There is many changes in the seed
>> right now, so I don't know the exact size we will have. However, we
>> can drop 1 or 2 langpack to make some room if necessary.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julien Lavergne
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> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw


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