The user manual developed in India is on word format, have a look here: http://folk.uio.no/knutst/pub/usermanual/
Which is linked from the front page of hisp.info (and should be linked from dhis2.com as well, but it is not at the moment). Ola Hodne Titlestad |Technical Officer| Health Metrics Network (HMN) | World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 |1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland | Email: [email protected]|Tel: +41 788216897 Website: www.healthmetricsnetwork.org Better Information. Better Decisions. Better Health. 2009/9/11 Bob Jolliffe <[email protected]> > Hi Jason > > I will have a look at odf2docbook. It is just implemented as an xslt > filter in openoffice so I should be able to get it out. > > If there are word documents with reasonable structure (highly unlikely!!) > then this might be a shortcut to getting a first pass going. Otherwise, > from word save as xhtml (I presume it can do that) and transform that to > docbook. > > Cheers > Bob > > > > 2009/9/11 Jason Pickering <[email protected]> > > >> Aha, there is a user manual, on yet another server! Never knew about this >> one. :) >> >> Wow, there really is a lot of material out there, and it is going to be a >> monumental task to get into into some type of "proper" form. >> >> Well, I am willing to try and coordinate the initial pass at getting the >> documentation into DocBook, but it will have to be a team effort. This was >> one of my arguments for moving towards this format, as it should allow >> collaborative work. This will have to be done in my "spare" time, but I am >> willing to give it a try, assuming that everyone else is on board, and this >> is the direction the community wants to go. It will be a lot of work, but it >> seems that the long-term advantages are abundant. >> >> I would still be interested to hear what the technical writer to be >> engaged by HMN has to say, as we definitely do not want to jump off a cliff >> here. >> >> >> >> 2009/9/11 Knut Staring <[email protected]> >> >> 2009/9/11 Lars Helge Øverland <[email protected]> >>> >>>> >>>>> The intrinsic problem with formats such as DockuWiki is that they are >>>>> pretty much a one way street. It is an easy format to use, but not >>>>> entirely >>>>> easy to transform into something else. Pure XML formats such as DocBook >>>>> separate entirely the content away from the presentation. Want Word? No >>>>> problem. How about PDF? Can do. How about an integrated help system with >>>>> the >>>>> application? Should not be an issue as you have pure XML to work with. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I want to emphasize this argument: We have decided earlier to have an >>>> integrated dynamic help function in dhis2, and we already have a simple >>>> solution implemented which we can build on. Still, syncronizing the content >>>> of this help function with the general documentation effort would be >>>> desirable (and necessary). Going for an xml format such as docbook and >>>> locating the help file inside the repo will solve this issue. Choosing a >>>> wiki will demand lots of manual work. >>>> >>> >>> Ola and I agree with going for DocBook - so please don't hesitate, Jason. >>> That said, we should look into ways of making it easy for people to >>> contribute. An initial approach would be for contributors to send their >>> material to you, and you make sure it fits in DocBook. >>> >>> The changes with release 2.0.2 does probably mean a new manual should be >>> created. Some material from the previous user manual may still be suitable: >>> http://folk.uio.no/knutst/pub/usermanual/ >>> >>> Knut >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Lars >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: >>>> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : >>>> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> Knut Staring >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs<https://launchpad.net/%7Edhis2-devs> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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