Configure gedit for documentation
I’ve been maintaining the gedit documentation since the run-up to the gedit 3.0 release, and doing so has helped me to get to know some of the ins-and-outs of the program. What can I say, it’s one of the perks of writing documentation – you get to know the software that you’re documenting. With that, [...]
Meeting users where they are
With both a two-day conference and a three-day sprint, the Open Help Conference made for a busy week, but I must say that it was a success. We had people there from Gnome, Mozilla, OpenStack, Red Hat, BSD, as well as people who were interested in learning about open-source help. Everyone had something to share. [...]
Help for Ubuntu 11.04 – We are working on it
Trying to write documentation for both Gnome 3 and Ubuntu 11.04 had many of the documentation contributors a bit strapped for time, but we are making progress on user help for 11.04. Here is a quick peek at what we are doing: Click to play This is all done with Mallard and Yelp. KDE, you [...]
RelaxNG, Entities, and Namespaces
I ran into a couple of roadblocks in trying to use entities with Mallard recently, and thought I would share how I worked around them in case anyone else needed to do the same thing. Although my examples deal with Mallard, what I note here will also work for entities in DocBook 5 documents, or [...]
Duck, Duck, Gnu: Mallard and DocBook 5 support in Emacs
Edit: I recommend checking out Paul Frields’ post about Emacs and nXML mode, and also looking at the Fedora wiki page that he created. I think his approach is a bit simpler and cleaner than what I’ve provided below. Feel free to peruse what I’ve written, though, as some of my links to “getting started” [...]
