Hi Thomas, > I would like to offer my assistance to the Firebird Documentation Project.
Thanks! We surely can use some help :-) > In order to make Firebird more appealing (especially) to new users, a > complete (browseable, searchable) reference documentation is needed. Agreed. We're far from realizing a *complete* Firebird reference, but our first target in this area is a complete Firebird SQL Language Reference. As I wrote to you privately, Dmitry and I intend to work on this. A lot of material from the Firebird 2.5 Language Reference Update can be used, but much of it will need editing. Dmitry and I agreed on a (provisional) basic structure in December 2010. Meanwhile, Dmitry has committed a first skeleton (with some flesh) to CVS. > So, for now I would be thankful for any pointers where to start. A good starting point is probably the Firebird Docbuilding Howto: http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/docbuildhowto.html http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-Docbuilding-Howto.pdf If you read the first three sections (Intro, Getting the manual module and Building the Firebird docs), you'll have a good idea of the structure and format of our documentation sources, and how to build the PDF/HTML output. After that, I suggest that you check out the sources and have a look at the tree. The source texts are all under manual/src/docs. The skeleton for the Language Reference is in manual/src/docs/refdocs/langref After that... I guess it's up to you. Would you like to join Dmitry and me in trying to get the Language Reference off the ground? Or do you have other ideas? Please let us know! Thanks again for your offer, Paul Vinkenoog Doc subproject coordinator ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-docs
