In Need of a Tutorial

[t u]

Will Simpson wrote:
> On 12/24/06, t u <towsonu2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you have a tutorial that would walk me thru how to write in the
>> documentation format and provide patches like the below?
>>
>> I guess I didn't look hard enough, but can't find such a tutorial.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Will Simpson wrote:
>> > Attached is a patch that fixes a few broken links with relative paths.
> 
> 
> Here is what I know. This is how I got started.
> 1. Started @ http://www.mdke.org/?p=67
> 2. then went to -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Repository
> 2a. OOPS! I didn't have subversion installed so -> sudo apt-get
> install subversion
> oh the joy!
> 3. Now for the editor - meet big stone wall.
> 3a. Using Quanta but had to install DocBook4.3 DTD from this obscure thread
>    http://lists.kde.org/?l=quanta&m=113882783218319&w=2
> 3b. edit files sort of like html
> 4. Grabbed latest ubuntu-doc.deb @ http://doc.ubuntu.com/~matt/
> 5. Now you know everything I know about the internets.
> 
> 
> ps- I too am still looking (not that hard) for a DocBook tutorial that
> would be at the level needed for editing Ubuntu documentation. As soon
> as I learn it we'll switch to something else.
> 
> How this helps.

hmm, ouch :)

by the way, is there a way to use canonical's bzr instead of svn?

thanks a lot for the reply & help :)