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How To Convert UserBase Manual to Docbook
Preface
The current process is not polished, the script code is ugly, not intelligent enough, etc.. The only excuse is that it works somehow 
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If you want to improve the process, have good Python skills, and know the docbook authoring principles, you can improve the procedure.
Preparing Pages to Conversion
- Check that the pages of your manual follow the author guidelines of UserBase typographical guidelines.
- Check if every page has its header according to the level of this page in table of contents.
| UserBase | Docbook |
|---|---|
| =Section= | <chapter> |
| ==Section== | <sect1> |
| ===Section=== | <sect2> |
| ====Section==== | <sect3> |
| =====Section===== | <sect4> |
- Check if all table cells have space after the pipe character. This rule conforms with traditional wiki formatting.
- Make application name formatting consistent (avoid using Amaroks, do use Amarok's).
- Ensure that all images are in PNG format (you can use JPEG (.jpeg, not .jpg) as well, but in this case you should convert your images to PNG later.
- Remove all non-printable characters from image names.
Export
- Prepare the page list (strip from UserBase addresses http://userbase.kde.org). Example for Amarok:
Amarok Amarok/QuickStartGuide Amarok/QuickStartGuide/GettingStarted Amarok/QuickStartGuide/TheAmarokWindow Amarok/QuickStartGuide/TheMusicCollection Amarok/QuickStartGuide/Playlists Amarok/QuickStartGuide/TheContextView Amarok/QuickStartGuide/HowToDealWithProblems Amarok/QuickStartGuide/Glossary Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow/Toolbar Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow/MediaSources Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow/ContextPane Amarok/Manual/AmarokWindow/PlaylistPane Amarok/Manual/ConfiguringAmarok Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/CollectionScanning Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/CoverManager Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/DynamicPlaylists Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/AutomaticPlaylistGenerator Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/ExternalDatabase Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/AFT Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/Moodbar Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/WorkingWithMediaDevices Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/SavedPlaylists Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/PlaylistFiltering Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/QueueManager Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/SearchInCollection Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/TagEditor Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/OrganizeCollection Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/Transcoding Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/ScriptManager Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/RemoteCollections Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/RemoteCollections/Ampache Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/RemoteCollections/DAAP Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/RemoteCollections/Samba Amarok/Manual/AdvancedFeatures/RemoteCollections/UPnP Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/AmarokMenu Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/ViewMenu Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/Playlist Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/Tools Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/Settings Amarok/Manual/MenuAndCommandReference/Help Amarok/Manual/KeybindingReference Amarok/Manual/KeybindingReference/GlobalShortcuts Amarok/Manual/KeybindingReference/AmarokShortcuts Amarok/Manual/TroubleshootingAndCommonProblems Amarok/Manual/AmarokOnOtherPlatforms/Non-KDE Desktops Amarok/Manual/AmarokOnOtherPlatforms/Windows Amarok/Manual/AmarokOnOtherPlatforms/OSX Amarok/Manual/FAQ Amarok/Manual/Credits_and_License
- Go to the export page.
- Paste the page list into the bigger text field.
- Click on .
- Save the file. The saved file will be called Manual.xml in what follows.
Conversion
- Install Subversion package for your system.
- Checkout the latest version of conversion script:
svn checkout --depth=files svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/doc/
- Copy Manual.xml to the script folder.
- Run
python wiki2docbook.py Manual.xml
if you want to download all screenshots (it takes some time to download all images from UserBase, grep and wget should be installed), or
python wiki2docbook.py -s Manual.xml
if you need not to download images.
Post-processing
- Rename Manual.xml.docbook to index.docbook.
- Check if conversion was done correctly:
checkXML index.docbook
- Fix the errors (better on UserBase pages).
- Convert docbook to HTML:
meinproc4 index.docbook
- Check HTML pages (all images should be visible, links should not lead to 404-pages).
- Replace big images by thumbnails using convert from ImageMagick
- Fix links in docbook, so they lead to docbook section, not UserBase pages.
- Fix application name according to KDE entity list.
- Copy index.docbook and images to your /doc folder and commit them to repository.
