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[Jonathan Thomas <jonathan.oomph@xxxxxxxxx>]

The English help manual has now been uploaded to the translation system in
LaunchPad.  There is a lot of text to be translated, so I'm going to post an
article on website soon to ask for help from the community.

LaunchPad Translation Website:
https://translations.launchpad.net/openshot/openshot-docs/+translations

Thanks,
-Jonathan

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Thomas
<jonathan.oomph@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
>