[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 504058] Re: Currently no uniform method of writing code and directives

2010-01-13 Thread Kevin Godby
I've added some formatting code to handle terminal input/output and inline code. The terminal environment can be used for code blocks: \begin{terminal} \prompt \userinput{sudo apt-get install banshee} Password: \userinput{s3krE7} Installing banshee... Banshee installed! \end{t

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 504058] Re: Currently no uniform method of writing code and directives

2010-01-18 Thread Kevin Godby
** Changed in: ubuntu-manual/main Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- Currently no uniform method of writing code and directives https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/504058 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Manual

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Introducing Kevin Godby's new feature: chaplink

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Martin. 2010/1/20 Martin Lukeš : > Thank you Kevin. Great feature. > > On behalf of all translators I'd like to ask you one thing. > Do I have to translate that link, or can I simply keep the original text? You should leave the entire \chaplink{ch:something} as is. The word 'chapter' will

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] IMPORTANT: Feedback from Martin Owens

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Godby
'allo. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Benjamin Humphrey wrote: > Tonight I showed Martin the latest revision over IRC. Attached is the IRC > log of our conversation, where he raises some good points. Please have a > read! Here are the formatting issues I saw mentioned: 1. "Ubuntu Manual" text

[Ubuntu-manual] Prerequisites to compiling the manual

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, all. I recently added a new required LaTeX package to compile the manual. Unfortunately, it's not packaged in any of the Ubuntu TeX packages (they're still using the old TeXLive 2007 stuff -- 2009 just came out). But, to make the installation as easy as possible, I've included a copy of th

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Prerequisites to compiling the manual

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Godby
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Luke-Jennings wrote: > It took me a moment to work it out, but if you update your copy of > ubuntu-manual by following the directions at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Help#Updating%20your%20local% > 20branch . Then within your ubuntu-manual folder there w

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 513257] Re: Text formatting for links

2010-01-27 Thread Kevin Godby
** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Assignee: (unassigned) => Kevin Godby (godbyk) ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Importance: Undecided => Medium -- Text formatting for links https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513257 You rece

[Ubuntu-manual] Compiling translated PDFs

2010-01-29 Thread Kevin Godby
Good news, everyone! I've got a lot of the translation stuff automated now. Not-so-good news: If you want to compile translated documents, you'll have to jump through some hoops at first. First, for those of you who are just writing plain, boring English, nothing has changed for you. You can co

[Ubuntu-manual] Kevin's status report

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, all. Since I won't be able to attend the meeting this weekend, I wanted to write up a quick status report of what I've been up to. I've been spending most of my time this week working on incorporating the translations back into our manual compiling process. I've updated the Makefile so th

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] The Title

2010-02-01 Thread Kevin Godby
I agree with Thorsten's and Wendy's assessments: I prefer "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04." "The Ubuntu Manual" sounds comprehensive, detailed, and technical. I could see the name attracting a lot of non-beginner users who would then be disappointed at what they found. The name also invites s

[Ubuntu-manual] Screenshot placeholder command

2010-02-13 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, all. One of the main goals for the beta release is to have the screenshots in place. In order to facilitate this, I've added a new command that we can put in as a placeholder until we get real screenshots: \screenshotTODO{Description of the desired screenshot} When you run 'make' to

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Meeting last Saturday

2010-02-16 Thread Kevin Godby
'allo. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Josh Holland wrote: > Can everyone who is giving a session *please, please, please* check over > the wiki page. I just added in a load of times for the Tuesday morning, > and I have no idea whether they're workable or not. It's pretty > important to get thi

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 522900] Re: Compiling in German gives the following error

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Godby
I edited the po file directly and it compiles fine now. ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: New => Fix Committed -- Compiling in German gives the following error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522900 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, whic

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 523578] [NEW] Arabic translation fails to compile

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Godby
Public bug reported: When I run "make ubuntu-manual-ar.pdf", the compilation fails: ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 111. \fi l.111 ** Affects: ubuntu-manual Importance: Undecided Assignee: Kevin Godby (godbyk) Status: New

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 523578] Re: Arabic translation fails to compile

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Godby
** Attachment added: "ubuntu-manual-ar.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39337853/ubuntu-manual-ar.log -- Arabic translation fails to compile https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523578 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Ubuntu-manual] Bengali translation

2010-02-20 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello. If anyone on this list is helping with the Bengali translation, could you send me an email please? I have a few questions that I need answered so that the Bengali translation will compile. Thanks! --Kevin ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.ne

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Bengali translation

2010-02-20 Thread Kevin Godby
ge package (with credit to you, of course) so that others may benefit from them. The language modules are licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL): http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt. May I have your permission to contribute your

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Slides for 48 hours

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, Josh. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Josh Holland wrote: > Hi all, > > If you could all provide a link to a PDF of your slides, I can add them to > the iCal ready for this afternoon and tomorrow morning. I've uploaded the slides from my talk, Benjamin's talks, and Ilya's talk to my web s

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Fonts to be used

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Godby
est_sans_converted.pdf >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Artwork?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=font_test_serif_converted.pdf >> >> Kevin Godby and I went through the fonts. We looked at individual letter >> forms, kerning, glyph coverage and style (not too stiff, but n

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 525799] Re: where is siunitx.sty ?

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Godby
The siunitx package is only included in TeX Live 2009, so you'll have to install that. I've written some installation instructions in the last chapter of this PDF document: http://kevin.godby.org/ubuntu-manual/talks/latex-handout.pdf -- where is siunitx.sty ? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/5

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 525799] Re: where is siunitx.sty ?

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Godby
** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Assignee: (unassigned) => Kevin Godby (godbyk) -- where is siunitx.sty ? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525799 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Manual. Status in Ubuntu Manual:

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 525799] Re: where is siunitx.sty ?

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Godby
Yes, it's required. The polyglossia package requires a later version of xelatex than what comes with TeX Live 2007. (I tried your method first -- downloading the individual packages that we needed. Unfortunately, the xelatex version requirement got in the way.) The tipa package is currently bei

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 525799] Re: where is siunitx.sty ?

2010-02-22 Thread Kevin Godby
I've updated the install-pkgs.sh script (located in the ubuntu- manual/pkgs/ directory). It will check to see that you have the proper version of TeX Live installed and also install any missing packages (both TeX and Ubuntu) and fonts. Please let me know if you run into any problems with the scri

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 522900] Re: Compiling in German gives the following error

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin Godby
** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- Compiling in German gives the following error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522900 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Manual. Status in Ubu

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 522356] Re: LaTex-Formatting-Bug

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin Godby
** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- LaTex-Formatting-Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522356 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Manual. Status in Ubuntu Manual: Fix Released

[Ubuntu-manual] New code

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, everyone . I've recently been working on some new code to help simplify things a bit. First, I've updated the install-pkgs.sh script. It now tries to detect which version of LaTeX you have installed and will either tell you to upgrade (if the version is too old), or check to make sure you ha

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New code

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, Martin. 2010/2/24 Martin Lukeš : > Great work! I could finally compile "my" manual. ;) > > My feedback: > Text on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Prerequisites is a little bit > fuzzy I think. Maybe its me but part 6 and 7 took me at least ten minutes to > understand. ;) Not to mention

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New code

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, Ben. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Ben <6180339g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I installed TexLive 2009 and ran your script, but I'm getting this error > about 'xmpincl.sty' not being findable. I was able to find a copy of it > online, but I still got an error (attached). Whoops, I forgo

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New code

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin Godby
'allo. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Ben <6180339g...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was wondering a bit about that ... I checked, but couldn't find the > 'xmpincl' bit in any Ubuntu packages other than a generic texlive one, which > was probably the old version. > It appears that Launchpad didn't pick

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New code

2010-02-24 Thread Kevin Godby
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Ben <6180339g...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's OK ... I know the feeling :) > Unfortunately, I still got an error (re above: I typed "area" instead of > "error" ... :)  ), but I haven't finished that reinstall - the download > keeps giving up halfway through for me, so

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New code

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Martin. 2010/2/25 Martin Lukeš : > I don't know if I'm not late. ;) > I ran new install-pkgs.sh and it installed some packages, but "Make > Translated PDF" still wants three-times press Enter and Evince still doesn't > open. > But as it was before - compiled .pdf seems fine with no errors.

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New code

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Jamin. 2010/2/25 Jamin Day : > I'm also having issues compiling the pdf through Ground Control. > I followed the instructions on the wiki to remove all previous texlive > packages and install texlive 2009. I'm using English only so didn't install > any language or documentation packs. Then

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New code

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Ben. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Ben <6180339g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I tried reinstalling and re-running your script. Both processes were > happy until I attempted a 'make show', when it complained about beramono and > libertine (I think ... logs attached). Thanks for reporting

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Getting going and hit a speed bump, LaTex 2009 install and install_pkgs.sh

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Maia. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:34 PM, maia grotepass wrote: > I am trying to get the environment sorted to work on this project and I am >  having a few problems. I have a relatively clean Karmic install and I > didn't have any Tex version installed. I followed the instructions on the > H

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New code

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, Ben. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Ben <6180339g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hopefully I haven't gotten too annoying ... :) Nah, we're just working out all the kinks in the script. > FYI, I had to manually install ccicons, following the readme ... and it > still didn't work. It's finding th

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Feedback for 48 hours

2010-02-25 Thread Kevin Godby
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Benjamin Humphrey wrote: > Hi guys, > So as most of you should know, not only was 48 hours a chance for us to > actually get some stuff done and teach new people about the manual project, > but it was also a chance to test out some new stuff, like ClassBot, Lernid,

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Edition?

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Godby
Here's some background on how the publishing history information typically works in books. The publishing history is included on the copyright page of the book. The following information is taken from the Chicago Manual of Style: ``Publishing History. The publishing history of a book, which usual

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 525799] Re: where is siunitx.sty ?

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Godby
** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- where is siunitx.sty ? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525799 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Manual. Status in Ubuntu Manual: Fix Released

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] License

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Daniel. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Daniel Schury wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey everybody, > > would it be possible, to use a local copy of the license in the branch > instead of using launchpad for translation? Because the license already > _is_ tran

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] License

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Godby
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Daniel Schury wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >> So if the language you're translating into already has an >> appropriately translated license on the CC site, then you don't have >> to worry about translating the license. >> >> If you do n

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] License

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Godby
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Daniel Schury wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alright. Little LaTex-Question: the license uses enumeration this way: > 1.a.i But the manual uses only \begin{enumeration} for the first and > second layer, not the third. Wouldn't it be ea

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] License

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Godby
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Daniel Schury wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Do you see that something is labeled? Or: If I want to set a ref to 2.b, > but not 2.a, would there be an optical difference between the both, so > that I would have to label every enumerati

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] License

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Godby
2010/3/3 Martin Lukeš : > Hi Kevin > I pushed Czech translation from > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/cz/legalcode and I put it to > backmatter/ directory under name license-cs.tex > I also tried to do a bit of a LaTeX formating on it and as far as I could > see (thanks to "Make tran

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] License

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Godby
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Ilya Haykinson wrote: > I recommend that we _never_ translate this license, since it's a binding > legal document and it is very easy to make a mistake in translation that > alters the entire meaning. If need be, I can email Lawrence Lessig and ask > for help in ap

[Ubuntu-manual] Glossary

2010-03-07 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, all. I've just added a glossary to the manual. You'll need to run the pkgs/install-pkgs.sh script to make sure you have all the required packages installed. If you want to add entries to the glossary, add them in the frontmatter/glossary-entries.tex file. A glossary entry looks like this

[Ubuntu-manual] Glossary and Index

2010-03-07 Thread Kevin Godby
Greetings! Since we have the glossary and index set up now, it would be a good idea if we had an editor or two to stick in charge of them. Instead of having everyone indexing their own chapters, I think it'd be better if we had one or two people dedicated to all of the indexing work. This will he

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Glossary

2010-03-07 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Daniel. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Daniel Schury wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Question about the plural Forms: Does it only add a "s" at the end? By default it will append \glspluralsuffix to the value of the name field. \glspluralsuffix defaults to '

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] "Translate" links?

2010-03-07 Thread Kevin Godby
'allo. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Daniel Schury wrote: > I've got a question: Am I as a translator allowed, to change links from > original pages to appropiate pages in the translation-language? I don't know what the official word is on this, but it makes sense to me. The goal is that some

[Ubuntu-manual] Translators: A note about the \SI command

2010-03-07 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello. Just a quick notes to the translators about the \SI command. If your language doesn't use the standard English-language SI unit names, then remove the \SI command and replace it with plain text in your language. For example, \SI{3}{\giga\byte} would print "3 GB" in English. Free free to

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Bizarre Bazaar Error

2010-03-07 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Bryan. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Bryan Behrenshausen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to push my recent commits to Launchpad and am receiving this error: > > br...@bryan-aspire:~/Projects/ubuntu-manual$ bzr push lp:ubuntu-manual > bzr: ERROR: These branches have diverged.  See "bzr he

[Ubuntu-manual] Ubuntu Manual on Ohloh

2010-03-07 Thread Kevin Godby
'allo. I added our project to Ohloh: https://www.ohloh.net/p/ubuntu-manual/ If you're a contributor to the project and have an Ohloh account (they're free), feel free to claim your name. You can also see interesting stats on the site such as how many commits each person has made, what compute

[Ubuntu-manual] Notes for translators

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello. I've updated my LaTeX handout to include notes for translators (chapter 4) including what should and should not be translated. http://kevin.godby.org/ubuntu-manual/talks/latex.handout.pdf Please let me know if there are any questions, if I've missed anything, or if something could be

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Notes for translators

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Godby
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Yann Ubuntu wrote: > Hi Kevin,  your page gives a "404 - Page Not Found" error. Whoops! That's what I get for typing it by hand.  Here's the correct link: http://kevin.godby.org/ubuntu-manual/talks/latex-handout.pdf --Kevin _

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 523578] Re: Arabic translation fails to compile

2010-03-11 Thread Kevin Godby
Fixed in the latest version of polyglossia. ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- Arabic translation fails to compile https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523578 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is subscribed t

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Wikipedia page!

2010-03-13 Thread Kevin Godby
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Vishnoo wrote: > Hi , > I just want to mention that the team starting our own wikipedia page is > _not_ a good idea. > > The editors in the page are mostly only from our team , and it seems > like we are just doing it for our own ego boost. > > IMHO , wikipedia sh

[Ubuntu-manual] Adding screenshots to the manual

2010-03-15 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, all. I took some of the screenshots that ubuntujenkins gave me (at 1024 x 768) and added them to the manual with the new \screenshot command. You can take a look at the result: http://kevin.godby.org/private/ubuntu-manual/ubuntu-manual.pdf (See pages 24, 70, 76, 80, 88, and 94.) I've g

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Spaces in keystrokes

2010-03-26 Thread Kevin Godby
For the keystrokes, use + as the separator and do not use spaces. Also, the key names should be capitalized. So it should be: Alt+Tab, Ctrl+N, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Enter, Shift, Esc, Backspace, Home, Ins, PgUp, PgDn, F1, etc. --Kevin ___ Mailing list: https://

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 550344] Re: Make appendix links use entire name as the link text

2010-03-28 Thread Kevin Godby
Good call. I've fixed this in r628. ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: New => Fix Released -- Make appendix links use entire name as the link text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550344 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is subscrib

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 544777] Re: No nomenclature at the start of the manual

2010-03-31 Thread Kevin Godby
** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- No nomenclature at the start of the manual https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544777 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Manual. Status in Ubuntu M

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] License

2010-04-02 Thread Kevin Godby
Excellent job, Ilya! Thanks for your help sorting this out. Are these the licenses we should be using (if there isn't a translation offered on the main license page)? http://creativecommons.org/international/ --Kevin ___ Mailing list: https://launc

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] License

2010-04-02 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, Martin. >> Regarding bugs in the manual -- it's CC's policy that the published >> version is not changed (even for punctuation or factual errors). So the 1(f) >> reference that is clearly meant to be 1(h) will stay in the manual. They >> have a wiki where bugs are tracked -- if I get a link t

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] which screenshots are needed

2010-04-04 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Dan. On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Dan 'Da Man' wrote: > Where can we check to see which screenshots in which language need to > be uploaded? You can check this site for a preliminary count: http://screenshots.ubuntu-manual.org/ Note that the screenshots haven't been proofread yet (

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] which screenshots are needed

2010-04-04 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Anup. On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Anup wrote: > how can i upload screen shots? You can upload screenshots using the Quckshot application: http://ubuntu-manual.org/quickshot --Kevin ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual

[Ubuntu-manual] New style guide

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, everyone. I've started work on our new style guide. (I started with the LaTeX handout I created a while back and will be adding things to it as we go along.) I thought I'd mention it now as it contains a chapter that shows all the LaTeX commands we use and which parts should be (and shoul

[Ubuntu-manual] Fwd: Follow up to Default Search Provider Changes for 10.04

2010-04-07 Thread Kevin Godby
It looks like the default search provider will be Google for 10.04 and not Yahoo as previously mentioned. What should we do RE: string freeze on this issue? --Kevin -- Forwarded message -- From: Rick Spencer Date: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:31 PM Subject: Follow up to Default Searc

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Fwd: Follow up to Default Search Provider Changes for 10.04

2010-04-07 Thread Kevin Godby
I've updated the lucid-1e branch to reflect the new default search engine. I've also updated the window controls order, as well. A new pot file will be generated soon. --Kevin ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Trying to compile the manual locally.

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Fran. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Fran Dieguez wrote: > Hi all, > > For testing purposes I'm compiling the manual locally on my computer. > I have exported the po file from launchpad and the compilation is mostly > done but while compiling the references says: > > "Latex Warning: There

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New style guide

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, Martin. 2010/4/7 Martin Lukeš : > I couldn't find command > \ignorespaces > anywhere. > > It is used in Prologue: >> >> \mbox{}\marginnote{To learn more about Linux distributions, see >> \chaplink{ch:learning-more}.}\ignorespacesThese early \acronym{GUI}s were >> difficult to configure I'll

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] "do not translate this" note

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, Martin. 2010/4/8 Martin Lukeš : > Hi Kevin > I'd like to ask about translating. > At the beginning of the manual there are few strings with "do not translate > this" note. For example just this one > https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/lucid-e1/+pots/ubuntu-manual/cs/1/+translate

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New style guide

2010-04-10 Thread Kevin Godby
'allo. 2010/4/10 Martin Lukeš : > Hi Kevin > I have a question ... again. ;) Great! :) > This time it is about \newglossaryentry command. >> >> \newglossaryentry{⟨keyword⟩}{name={⟨term⟩}, description={⟨definition⟩} > > I'd like to know if we really shouldn't translate "keyword". > And what is th

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] quotes

2010-04-11 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Martin. 2010/4/11 Martin Lukeš : > Hi Kevin > I'd like to ask you about quotation marks for Czech language. > You wrote "Quotation marks for other languages are entered as their Unicode > characters." in Style Guide. > In hand-written expression we are used to write quotes like „this“. > Ho

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] quotes

2010-04-11 Thread Kevin Godby
'allo. 2010/4/11 Martin Lukeš : > Well, it's actually not that easy. > I wrote we use those quotes in hand-written expression. When we write quotes > on PC we're depending on text editor to automatically change "these" to > „these“ since on our keyboards is just "this" character as double quotes.

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 561868] Re: wrong text

2010-04-14 Thread Kevin Godby
Fixed in r781. ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Assignee: (unassigned) => Kevin Godby (godbyk) -- wrong text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 560416] Re: Description of Bluetooth icon preferences incorrect

2010-04-14 Thread Kevin Godby
Sayantan--- If you can fix this bug and attach a patch, I'll get it applied. Thanks! -- Description of Bluetooth icon preferences incorrect https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560416 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Man

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 533444] Re: symbols for closing etc. of windows changed side

2010-04-14 Thread Kevin Godby
** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- symbols for closing etc. of windows changed side https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533444 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Team, which is a bug assignee. Status in Ubuntu Manual

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 563654] Re: Doubled information in item 1422 (in web browser) of manual

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin Godby
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 560315 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560315 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 560315 Same sentence two times on string number 1422 -- Doubled information in item 1422 (in web browser) of manual https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563654 Y

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 564183] Re: Wrong glossary tag

2010-04-16 Thread Kevin Godby
You're correct, it should be \glspl. I've fixed this in r790. ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Milestone: None => release-candidate ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Assignee: (unassigned) => Kevin Godby (godbyk) ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Importance: Undecided =>

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 560315] Re: Same sentence two times on string number 1422

2010-04-16 Thread Kevin Godby
Fixed in r791. ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Assignee: (unassigned) => Kevin Godby (godbyk) ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Milestone: None => release-candidate ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- Same sentence two times on string number 1

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 564305] Re: wrong numbers

2010-04-16 Thread Kevin Godby
I've fixed this in r792. ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Milestone: None => release-candidate -- wrong numbers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/564305 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Manual Te

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] German quotation marks

2010-04-16 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Daniel. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Daniel Schury wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > in german the manual needs to use »?« and ??? as quotation marks. What > was the correct procedure to include them correctly, except just enter > them into the tra

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] New style guide

2010-04-20 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, Martin. I apologize for the late reply to this one. I flagged it to respond to later and it promptly got buried under a deluge of other email. 2010/4/12 Martin Lukeš : > Hi Kevin > Me again. ;) > > I noticed that you probably missed the \eg command when writing Style Guide. > Or it was on pu

[Ubuntu-manual] Final draft of the US English manual

2010-04-26 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, everyone. I've uploaded the final draft of the US English manual. If you have a few minutes, I'd appreciate it if you would page through it and let me know of any bugs you notice. http://builds.ubuntu-manual.org/builds/ubuntu-manual-final-draft.pdf You can either reply to this email w

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 570125] Re: No version of TeX Live was detected while texlive IS installed

2010-04-26 Thread Kevin Godby
the tlmgr script. After that, the install-pkgs.sh script should successfully detect the TeX Live installation. If this doesn't work, please let me know and we can investigate it further. ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Assignee: (unassigned) => Kevin Godby (godbyk) -- No version of TeX Liv

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Final draft of the US English manual

2010-04-27 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Jeremy. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > The index looks pretty bad. There are nearly-duplicate entries like: > > Apt, 123 > apt, 123 > Apt-get, 123 > Apt-get, 123-125, 137 > F-Spot, 27 > F-Spot Photo Manager, 83 > gedit, 123 > gedit Text Editor, 27 > Nautilus, 29-32,

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 568652] Re: Mac OS X in lower case

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Godby
argument here and I'll consider them -- I'm still a bit on the fence about this one. ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Assignee: (unassigned) => Kevin Godby (godbyk) ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual Milestone: None => edition-2 -- Mac OS X in lower case https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] application tag

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Martin. 2010/4/29 Martin Lukeš : > Hey Kevin > I know it's late for the first release, anyway. > > Relating to bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/+bug/565343 about > manual conventions. > I found that \application tag do nothing. At least it looks like. > For an example see attach

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Plans for the websites

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Ilya Haykinson wrote: > I would add to this "Create a way to read the manual online", i.e. embed > some flash-based PDF display, to let people without a PDF reader look > through our manual. You could embed Google's PDF viewer on our website: https://do

[Ubuntu-manual] Tabula rasa

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Godby
Hey, guys. Before we all get started on updating the lucid-e2 branch, I wanted to run an idea by you. I'm hoping that those more experienced with bzr/Launchpad can help. Right now, our branch is over 150 MB in size. The actual size of the source files required to build the manual is less than a

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] application tag

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Godby
'allo. 2010/4/29 Martin Lukeš : > Right, index. Totally forgot about that. ;) No worries. :) > I might have just few more questions. > Since application tag doesn't change the font, it's fine if I do something > like: >> >> Pomocí \application{Writer}u. > > Whole "Writeru" word will be with the

[Ubuntu-manual] [Bug 572318] Re: website looks misaligned in epiphany

2010-04-30 Thread Kevin Godby
** Project changed: ubuntu-manual => ubuntu-manual-website ** Changed in: ubuntu-manual-website Assignee: (unassigned) => Adnane Belmadiaf (adnane) -- website looks misaligned in epiphany https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of U

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] How to translate \chaplink{ch:learning-more}

2010-05-04 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Quynh Vu Do wrote: > Hi, > > Is it right that translation to Vietnamese of the following string: > \chaplink{ch:learning-more} > > should be like: > \chaplink{ch:học-thêm-nữa} > > i.e. each word in the chapter name should be separated by dashes, not blank >

[Ubuntu-manual] State of the bzr branches

2010-05-08 Thread Kevin Godby
arted based on lucid-e2 just prior to starting work on the Maverick manual, so any changes made here will likely be lost.) Do not make any changes to this branch at this time. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! --Kevin Godby ___

[Ubuntu-manual] Releasing translated editions

2010-05-08 Thread Kevin Godby
untu-manual. My IRC nick is godbyk. Thanks for all your hard work and help in making the Ubuntu Manual Project such a success! --Kevin Godby ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Contributing to the project

2010-05-08 Thread Kevin Godby
happily accept those, too.) In any event, welcome to the project! if you have any questions, comments, criticisms, etc., feel free to email this list or visit us on IRC (Freenode) in #ubuntu-manual. Thanks for your interest! --Kevin Godby ___ Maili

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Contributing to the project

2010-05-08 Thread Kevin Godby
y to stumble across. Currently it serves primarily as a link we can point people to when they want to get started. But a friendlier introduction and overview would be much better. I think the instructions should be broken up into multiple pages as well. > Hopefully I can be of help to the com

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] What are the dimensions of the printed book version ?

2010-05-08 Thread Kevin Godby
f the manual is currently available from lulu.com at http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/getting-started-with-ubuntu-1004/8709550. The Vietnamese manual will be released in two paper sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US letter (8.5 × 11 inches). The version printed through lulu.com wil

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] (ast) Translated items are now suggestions

2010-05-08 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello. On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Xuacu wrote: > Hi there! > > I've found that already translated items in Asturian language now > appears as suggestions in LaunchPad. > > After a quick overview, it looks like glossary entries which use an > apostrophe (') within the translated string. Befor

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Releasing translated editions

2010-05-09 Thread Kevin Godby
translation to the lucid-e2 translation. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thanks again for volunteering to be an editor and helping to translate the manual into Asturian! --Kevin Godby ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubunt

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Contributing to the project

2010-05-09 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, Paul. On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Paul Strickland wrote: > Thanks for the information. I followed the instructions for branching > the manual code and installing TeX Live 2009 without too many problems. > The only thing is that there doesn't appear to be a ubuntu-manual/pkgs/ > directo

Re: [Ubuntu-manual] Strange issues at translations on Launchpad

2010-05-10 Thread Kevin Godby
Hello, all. I'm aware of the problem, but I haven't figured out the cause yet. No one's responded in the Launchpad IRC channel yet. Since Benjamin Humphrey is at UDS with some of the Launchpad developers, I've tasked him with cornering one of the developers until they can help us figure out what

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