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bug? or annoyance?
by Brynn 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

Hi Maren and Martin, I'm not sure if I've found a bug, or if this is just another annoying thing about using the link plugin. Since Maren said I should not copy over the source from the staging page (so I don't have to make new links), I tried to use the non-source part of the editor. In a few places there are 2 links to the same page. But if I use the same the text link, and simply change the text by typing, then after the page is saved and published, even though the text appears to be correct in the editor, it reverts to the original text when saved/published. Steps to reproduce: 1 -- Open any page (with links made by plugin) to edit, such as Contribute. 2 -- Copy a text link, such as "Open Source" in the first sentence. 3 -- Paste it somewhere else on the page, like the end of that same paragraph. 4 -- Change the text "Open Source" to "click here". 5 -- Looks fine in the editor, but after saving and publishing, it changes back to "Open Source". I'm not sure if it happens during the save or the publish. I didn't notice until after the publish, but it probably happened during the save. The solution I found was to make a brand new link. To my understanding, it sounds like that makes a new....maybe it's like a new row or item in a database, or something like that. But anyway it sounds like it must be duplicating something. Also, different topic. What do I need to do to get the format changes going, with the indents, and different heading styles? Bug report? Thanks again, brynn

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new Contribute and Develop pages ready
by Brynn 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

Hi Everyone, These pages have basically the same content as before, but just rearranged, so that the page structure mirrors the sub-menu structure (or vice versa). Of course, since I started them on staging, AND started before we discussed always using the django plugin for making links, I'll have to fix all the links once I transfer the content (from staging to live). (partly off topic, but using the link plugins will put a kink in the process of using the staging site to make drafts of pages, like I have, for the several pages I've worked on) Anyway, if you'd like to review that I got everything right, and didn't forget anything..... Here is new Contribute: http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynns-contribute/?edit_off, and Here is new Develop: http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynnsdev/?edit_off. Here's my plan: -- transfer the content, from staging to live pages -- fix all the links -- publish -- move Bug Management sub-menu item to the bottom If we ever get guides for writing documentation and/or extensions, those would go below Bug Mgmt, at least for the time being. I do realize that larger changes may be on the way, if Matthew's structure is adopted. But at least for now, this will be a little improvement. (Also partly off topic -- if Matthew's structure is adopted, which removes 1 whole main menu item and sub-menu, maybe the Gallery could go into the main menu? Maybe it's just me, but I think the Gallery needs top billing :-) ) Ok then. Please let me know if any changes are needed to these pages, and when I can go ahead with the transfer. All best, brynn

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jabber? also communities on Chat Now page
by Brynn 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

Hi again, The other day, I think it was Martin who said to get rid of info or references to Jabber, or something like that. I just came across a couple of instances, but now I don't remember what the instructions were. And I can't seem to find the message about it. One is on the new Community page, which I'll fix over on staging. In both places, it's just the words "and Jabber", that I guess should be deleted? The other is the current Chat Now page, under Inkscape Development Online Discussion > IRC > end of 2nd sentence. Also, I think I mentioned this a while ago. Under the chat applet is International and Local Communities section, which links to the wiki page. I have transferred all that info from the wiki page (and updated) to the Learn page. Once 0.91 is released, it will be on the Communities page. Any objections to me deleting the International and Local Communities section? And regarding Jabber, I guess I'll delete "and Jabber", in the next section below? Thanks, brynn

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Inkscape Website
by Martin Owens 24 Jan '15

24 Jan '15

Hi Docs List, The website team is going to be joining this mailing list to keep track of website work. It's mostly talking about content issues as the technical stuff goes to bug reports. The idea of joining everything here means we can make the docs really consistent between the generated docs, the website and/or other educational content. Please welcome Maren Hachman (web-development/qa), Brynn (content/editing), Mathew Wong (content design) and Hinerangi Courtenay (visual design/branding) I'm Martin Owens, web developer and central node. :-) Please post a reply if you're interested in joining the website work and/or getting the docs for 0.91 on the website. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] re Documentation section of Develop page
by Hinerangi Courtenay 24 Jan '15

24 Jan '15

Hello Brynn, Mathew made contact with the others not long after myself – he is also a designer, so we'll be working together to redesign the website. Mathew has made a start on wireframes and a revised site map (linked to by Maren), and I have started on the general design direction (https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/5498/). If it interests you I started a Trello board for the redesign, so we all know where we're at – and any of us can add/assign/label tasks to the backlog or vote for them (the backlog is just a brain dump where we can create tickets for anything that comes to mind, but only things agreed upon should be moved to the todo column). If preferred we can make the group public so it can be visible to all, but editable only by those invited. Let me know if you would like to be added. Cheers,Hinerangi P.S. I have also just joined the docs list. On Saturday, 24 January 2015 8:51 PM, "brynn@...67..." <brynn@...67...> wrote: Sorry if this is a duplicate. I tried to send this to inks docs list, but didn't receive. -------------------------------------------------- From: <brynn@...67...> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 12:05 PM To: "Maren Hachmann" <maren@...68...>; "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...2...> Cc: "Mathew Wong" <matwong86@...2...>; "Hinerangi Courtenay" <nospamunicornus-mailinglist@...5...> Subject: Re: re Documentation section of Develop page > I'm joined too. Should I repost? > > Actually I didn't even know we had a 4th volunteer. What kind of work, > generally, will he generally be doing? > > brynn > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Maren Hachmann" <maren@...68...> > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 8:24 AM > To: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...2...> > Cc: <brynn@...67...>; "Mathew Wong" <matwong86@...2...>; > "Hinerangi Courtenay" <nospamunicornus-mailinglist@...5...> > Subject: Re: re Documentation section of Develop page > >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> Okay, I joined. You can reach me via that list now, too. >> >> Regards, >> Maren >> >> Am 24.01.2015 um 16:15 schrieb Martin Owens: >>> On Sat, 2015-01-24 at 15:18 +0100, Maren Hachmann wrote: >>>> >>>> @Martin: it seems we now have three sets of people working on >>>> rearranging the pages on the site independently. Do you have any news >>>> about our own mailing list? It would be better if they talked to one >>>> another and coordinated their efforts ;) (and I think it would be good >>>> to have our own, in case docs will one day be resuscitated ;) ) >>> >>> While we wait for OSUOSL to come back, we should get everyone to join >>> ubuntu-docs mailing list: >>> >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs >>> >>> Brynn, Mathew especially but everyone overall, we should make sure >>> content changes are also made aware to the inkscape-developers mailing >>> list. If there's a lot of changes then a weekly report would be ideal. >>> >>> Best Regards, Martin Owens >>> >>> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1 >> >> iF4EAREIAAYFAlTDuSQACgkQKoYx0uUjpE0XOgD/cobNjIXmUxEmuf7vCP1dlgr3 >> w1Wei3ELSw1an+hqHmoA/jOE+M/jP2/1ahnJekDPyNsHfK6qLGbP8t7Zdu/YsAFe >> =AfMH >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>

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Book
by Just Vecht 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Hi, Recently I wrote a book together with co-authors Kirsten Roth-Koch and Paul Matthijsse for the GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus programs. Three programs in one book with the goal to learn working with them and create well designed publications. The book is written in Dutch. Paul took care of GIMP, Kirsten did the Inkscape section and I did the Scribus part. Our aim is to help users to get things done beyond the capabilities of modern word processing software. The book's name is Basiscursus GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus. "Basiscursus" translates to something like Basic study course in English. although perhaps with a less formal tone in Dutch. We would like to let know about this book on the Inkscape website in the book section. How should I get this done? Here is the info on this book on the publisher's website: http://www.academicservice.nl/site/ict/nieuw/details.html?prod=20071059 Kirsten and I have each started a Wordpress blog on Inkscape and Scribus respectively. There is not that much information available on these two really outstanding programs so we are aiming to fill a gap here with the book and the blogs. Please understand we three are Dutch and we wrote this book for a Dutch audience. It would have been great to write this book in English for a world audience, but writing in English would be very hard. Link to a high res picture of the cover: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ga0zvljmh2bzkhp/basiscursus.png (if needed) TIA! regards, Just Vecht Inkscape Blog: https://basiscursusinkscape.wordpress.com / Scribus Blog: https://basiscursusscribus.wordpress.com

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inkscape.org registration/login error
by helix84 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Hello doc team, I just tried to register/log in (I don't know whether logins from the old website would still work) on the new inkscape.org website, but every time I only got "Server Error (500)". I tried both regular and Google authentication. Can you please forward this report to the appropriate person (web maintainer)? Thanks in advance. Regards, ~~helix84

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joieliliane11@...2...
by Umugwaneza Joie Liliane 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

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Wiki access & contributing thresholds
by Peter Uithoven 28 May '13

28 May '13

Hi guys, Great work on InkScape, shame it's so hard to contribute to the wiki. I was looking for a installing extension tutorial, to share on our Fablab website. Isn't there so instead of writing my own and sharing it on our Fablab website I though it would be better to have it on the Inkscape wiki / website. But then I can't edit the documentation page: http://inkscape.org/doc/index.php?lang=en (I actually can, but then I need to use svn, quite a threshold) I found the following page, which is a regular wiki http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tutorials_and_help But there is no register method, it only tells me I need to E-mail the developer list to request a account. 1. 90% of people haven't used mailings before 2. There is no link to the actual mail list, and there are actually quite a couple of mailing lists. Could I get an account? Could you guys add a link to the mailing list on the login page and possibly some tips or even add a other registration method? Thanks in advance, Best regards, Peter Uithoven

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Hello!
by Jiabao Wu 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi I want to help the Inkscape Manual team to compile a complete reference. Write more content for the website or wiki. I have installed and compiled Inkscape on my laptop. When I was first starting out i met several problems and some documentation I feel could be improved. I would like to submit some of these changes and have them reviewed. I am very interested in making documentation for Inkscape to improve the experience. Any suggestions where I can start? Thanks a lot. Cheers, Jiabao

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