[reportlab-users] manual proposal

[adam hyde]

hey Andy, As I said in my email - We use Reportlab to make PDF...infact
we use reportlab to make books:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore




adam

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 22:25 +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:

> 2008/10/19 adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>:

> > hi,

> >

> > If there is interest in putting together a manual on Reportlab then I'm

> > as keen as mustard to help get one going. We have a community of free

> > documentation writers at FLOSS Manuals and a tool set that enables the

> > ease of production, translation and output to online (via an embedded

> > manual api) or book form.

> 

> 

> Adam, thanks very much for this.  However, the problem isn't the tools,

> it's finding people who are willing to go through the existing manual

> making bits friendlier, correcting holes and inaccuracies, and adding some

> new examples.

> 

> Your site looks great and I am sure fills a big need.  But It would be quite

> sad for a publishing tool like ours to move away from being able to

> publish its own

> manuals (unless you use ReportLab to make PDFs?).  ReportLab's core

> business is helping clients publish content, and we have all the tools we

> need, as well as a roadmap which should sync with Python's own documentation

> one day (we hope to move to ReST).   The problem is finding people willing

> to spend time mainatining our open source documentation.

> 

> 

> 

> Best Regards,

> 

> 

> 

> 

-- 
Adam Hyde
Founder FLOSS Manuals
http://www.flossmanuals.net