[ubuntu-za] Documentation User Group

[Hilton Gibson]

Hi All

I looked at booktype quickly:
https://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/download
I tried the auto install but it failed on Ubuntu 14.04 - not a good start.

Cheers

hg

*Hilton Gibson*
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On 31 March 2015 at 08:40, William Walter Kinghorn <williamk at dut.ac.za>
wrote:

> Hi Raoul,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> From here : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Portal/Why
> "But ultimately, a lot of people leave because editing is just too
> complex."
>
> That is why they are creating VisualEditor
>
> reStructuredText and Wiki markup are too complex for a lot of people
>
> I unfortunately, have not been able to install Pubsweet or booktype ( I
> wanted to install them locally, not on the web )
> The reason why I wanted this locally, is for schools which don't have
> internet, and if I want to setup a private book/manual creation system.
>
> Raoul, you are the only one that has responded to my e-mail, Thanks
>
> I was hoping that more people would have responded, as I think this is
> very important for us
>
> William
> ________________________________________
> From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [
> ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] on behalf of Raoul Snyman [
> raoul at snyman.info]
> Sent: 31 March 2015 00:04
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Documentation User Group
>
> On 30/03/2015 22:42, William Walter Kinghorn wrote:
> > Unless, there is a nice gui app for Sphinx that I don't know about
>
> Meh. GUI apps are over-rated.
>
> The nice thing about Sphinx is that it uses reStructuredText, which
> looks a lot like how you see it eventually.
>
> Heading
> =======
>
> **Bold**
>
> Anyway, it was just a suggestion.
>
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