GSoC/2013/MallardHelp

Introduction

This page presents the status of the project "Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard" ^[1]. This project is being implemented as a GSoC 2013 project.

Work so far

Help content^[2] of the Help activity which is in rst has been converted to Markdown. The conversion was done using pandoc^[3]. The Markdown files are push at a fork^[4] of the help-activity-content.

To-do

Develop a script to convert Markdown source files to Mallard
- Up to now the current plan is to use html as an intermediate format. It will be easy to convert markdown or rst to html, it is straight forward with pandoc. Next a xml parser will be used and the mallard file will be written. At the moment I am reading about xml parsing in python.
Implement a mechanism to show help in each activity
Extract strings from the help docs and feed them to pootle for l10n
Write help for activities for which help is not there yet

Reference

↑ Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard [1]
↑ Help content of the Help activity [2]
↑ pandoc [3]
↑ Markdown files of the current help content [4]

[1] Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard [1]

[2] Help content of the Help activity [2]

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[4] Markdown files of the current help content [4]

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