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[Jonathan Thomas <jonathan.oomph@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,
I am proud to announce that Olivier and I have completed the English
Help-Manual.  Olivier had created much of the content in French, and then we
worked together to translate it into English.  I have created a new branch
on LaunchPad to hold the development files.  I have used OpenOffice.org
Writer to enter the content, which is then exported to DocBook(XML) format.

The structure of the help-manual has been modified a bit from Helen's
original plan, but that was due mainly to the Yelp help viewer, and the size
of the pages.  We have flattened the structure out a bit, so there are more
topics, and the topics are smaller... and easier to read.

It's uploaded to a new branch:
*bzr branch lp:~jonoomph/openshot/openshot-docs*
**
**To launch the help file, use this command:
*yelp ghelp://home/USER_NAME/openshot-docs/en-us/openshot/openshot.xml*

Please take a look when you have some time.  If there are missing topics,
spelling mistakes, grammer issues, just let me know.  I will update the ODT
file, and then re-export the XML and POT files.  Once everyone is happy, I
will upload the POT file into LaunchPad's translation system, and we'll
start the translation process. =)

A big thanks to Olivier and Helen for putting time into this project.  This
help-manual is an important step in making OpenShot the best video editor on
Linux.

Thanks!
-Jonathan